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Faith Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
- We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."…
- The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.
- The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles…
- The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
- 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,…
- To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
- I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in…
- If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the…
- You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine