Faith Quote by Jules de Goncourt Download Open image “When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.” — Jules de Goncourt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faith Incredulity Inspirational Love Rational Religion Unbelief
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Religion is too often the pretext for war, hatred, intolerance among different faiths, and competitive piety within faiths. But the problem isn’t with faith,… — Ray Bennett Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“The only limitations for your life are the limiting beliefs in your mind. —Matt Morris” — Matt Morris (1 Copy Share Image
“Just because your faith is shaken doesn’t mean the faith is shaken. The eternal truths of the Kingdom aren’t altered or affected by the… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image