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Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith.
Bhagat Singh1907–1931Why I am an atheist? (1930)
- Anti-Religion
I believe in the infinite wisdom that envelops and embraces me and from which I take direction, purpose, strength.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Essay in This I Believe: 2 (1952) edited by Edward R. Murrow, p. 142
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), tr. René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
- Courage
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto XCIVIn context
- Religion
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Crossing the Bar (1889)In context
- Life & Death
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
It is certain because it is impossible.
Tertullian150–220De Carne Christi 5.4
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.
Francis Thompson1859–1907The Hound of Heaven (1890)In context
- God
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
Paul Tillich1886–1965Dynamics of Faith (1957)
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
- Liberty
- Morality
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
Peter Ustinov1921–20042000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt (1996) by James A. Haught
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Mother Night (1962)
- Anti-Religion