Faith

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. – Michel de Montaigne

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. – Simone Weil

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith. – Paul Tillich

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. – Sophia Loren

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. – Cat Stevens

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. – E. M. Forster

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer. – Nick Rahall

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin. – Thomas Huxley

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. – Elizabeth I

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. – Albert Pike

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. – John Kenneth Galbraith

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. – Thomas Huxley

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. – Pope Benedict XVI

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. – William Hazlitt

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. – E. O. Wilson

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. – Elizabeth Edwards

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation. – George W. Bush