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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based o

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. – Walter Kaufmann

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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. – Walter Kaufmann

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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddhas atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. – Walter Kaufmann

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Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. – Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief. – Katey Sagal

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