Faith Quote by Christina Stead

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of…

— Umberto Eco

“I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

“All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight…

— St. John Vianney

“Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak…

— H.G. Wells

“The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings…

— L.M. Montgomery

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

— Walter Savage Landor

“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice…

— Euripides

“I give no shit to what extent they believe in superstitions and fanaticism. But I will fight till death, if their fallacious belief hurts…

— M.F. Moonzajer