Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
Orson Scott Card -"Children of the Mind"
If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stoip questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most hope in.
Orson Scott Card -"Call of Earth"
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and enoblement of life does not mean the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
Albert Einstein
Faith and love solve many things.
Phyllis Elliot
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Emerson
Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence with deity. . . The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer. . . Go out naked night and get religion there.
Sam Walter Foss
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran
He is dead in the world who has no belief in another.
Goethe
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley
Often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertain result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James
I do not think I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I beleive is alive. . . and open to growth.
Madeleine L'Engle
That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it, you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary.
Kira Nerys (DS9)
Belief is a truth held in the mind. Faith is a fire in the heart.
Joseph F. Newton
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not he contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
R. Tagore
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Paul J. Tillich
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Tolkein "Fellowship of the Rings"
Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.
Kobi Yamada
Faith is evidence of things unseen.
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and a shovel.
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