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Faith

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. – Martin Luther

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. – Martin Luther

Reason is the enemy of faith. – Martin Luther

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. – Soren Kierkegaard

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. – Thomas Paine

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. – Thomas S. Monson

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with. – Mitt Romney

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. – Erich Fromm

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. – H. L. Mencken

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. – Richard Dawkins

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life. – Mitt Romney

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people. – Mitt Romney

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life. – Mitt Romney

A library implies an act of faith. – Victor Hugo

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. – George Eliot

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. – William James

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. – Mason Cooley

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. – Joseph Addison