Faith involves a voluntary assent of the soul.

“Faith is never simply a feeling. Faith always involves movement. Get moving.”

— Tony Evans

“For me, faith involves staring into the abyss, seeing that it is dark and full of the unknown—and being okay with that.”

— Nina Riggs

“Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.”

— G C Berkouwer

In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the…

— J.P. Moreland

“Religion is inevitably something that demands faith , or belief from us. Given the variety of forms of religion, it is natural that definitions…

— Tagawa Shun'ei

It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go…

— Ernest Sosa

I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger…

— Ellen G. White

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms…

— Chester A. Arthur

“To fail to experience gratitude when walking through the corridors of the Metropolitan Museum, when listening to the music of Bach or Beethoven, when…

— William F. Buckley

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

— Al Franken

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense…

— Thomas Jefferson

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

— Anonymous