Faith Quotes - Page 39

• Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Loss, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.30, Routledge

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• ... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.

  Bill Cooke

  Military, Men, Doubt

  Bill Cooke (2003). “The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association”, Pyr Books

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• Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

  Alexander Lowen

  Animal, Psychics, Feelings

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• A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he would end up without faith. The same thing can be said of any feeling. You can analyze any feeling to death, but when you do that, you end up without feeling and without a meaninful life.

  Alexander Lowen

  Roots, Feelings, Examination

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• It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Light, Feelings, Evidence

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• No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation
  creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner
  world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

  J. B. Priestley

  Light, Shadow, World

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• God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Mirrors, Different, Looks

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• The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Independence, Spheres, Economic

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.282, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

  Allan Kardec

  Faces, Reason, Unshakable

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• I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms.

  Elizabeth of the Trinity

  Mother, Baby, Inspiration

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• Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one's community, to one's country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.

  Alexander Lowen

  Country, Animal, Psychics

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• Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Fall, Sleep, Science

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• Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, Tree, Religion

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• The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

  Mike Aquilina

  Inspiration, World, Study

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• It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Christian, Inspiration

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.12, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Inspiration, Mercy, Mankind

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• Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

  Robert Barron

  Inspiration, Heart, Mind

  FaceBook post by Bishop Robert Barron from Jul 22, 2014

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• I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Prayer, Inspiration

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• The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. Since it is by giving alms that everything is pure for you, you will also receive that blessing which is promised next by the Lord: the Godhead that no man has been able to see. In the inexpressible joy of this eternal vision, human nature will possess what eye has not seen or ear heard, what man's heart has never conceived.

  Pope Leo I

  Inspiration, Heart, Eye

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• If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.

  James, son of Zebedee

  Inspiration, Men, Giving

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• If we are to survive the Atomic Age, we must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the world's conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great monosyllables of life: faith, hope and love. Men must live by these if they live at all under the crushing weight of history.

  O. P. Kretzmann

  Crush, Fear, Hate

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• Are we using science in ways that it wasn't intended to, in which case we should be a little careful, or are we using faith in ways that faith wasn't really designed for? There are certain questions that are better answered by one approach than the other, and if you start mixing that up, then you end up in ... conflict.

  Francis Collins

  Mixing, Littles, Way

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• Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Insanity, Mind, Insane

  Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”

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• Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

  Hans Selye

  Science, Purpose, Bitter

  Hans Selye (1964). “From dream to discovery: on being a scientist”

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• My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.

  Norman Pirie

  Teacher, Science, Church

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