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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. – Paul Tillich

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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. – Paul Tillich

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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. – Paul Tillich

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I have deep respect for peoples individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting. – Andrew Denton

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Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. – Romain Rolland

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then theres got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when youre at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together. – Yo-Yo Ma

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