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Faith … is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity, Book III, Chapter 11 “Faith” (1952)
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Sermones 4.1.1
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274
If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking…the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Ayn Rand1905–1982
- Morality
- Truth & Lies
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
- Knowledge
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Duty, honour, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)
- Courage
- Hope
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right.
John Donne1572–1631
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith, loses all.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962