Quotes about Faith

Vincent Van Gogh

Businessman, Artist, Painter

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the eternal pattern of the human "we", especially of that "we" formed by the man and the woman created in the divine image and likeness... Man is created "from the very beginning" as male and female: the life of all humanity - whether of small communities or of society as a whole - is marked by this primordial duality.

Eternity - Faith - Female - Human - Inspiration - Male - Man - Mystery - Whole

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

Understanding is the wages of faith.

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Teresa of Avila

Saint

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

Faith - Flow - Inspiration - Man - Sacred - Scripture - Serious - Sound - Trouble - World

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Baruch Spinoza

Philosopher

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Becoming - Faith - God - Hope - Philosophy - Religion - Teaching

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.

Despair - Faith - Man

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

Balance - Dependence - Faith - Inspiration - Man

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

Ability - Countries - Faith - Opinion - People - Perfection - Shooting - War - World - Wrong

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William Butler Yeats

Clergyman, Poet, Poet

The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

Faith - Man - Misery - Thinking

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

Faith - Help - Man - Mankind - Misery - Motivation - Teaching

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Belief - Bible - Depression - Faith - God - Healing - Holiness - Overcome - Preaching - Religion - Scripture

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Ernest Holmes

Novelist, Theologian, Writer

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Certainty - Doubt - Faith - Mentality - Praying - Universe

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Belief - Faith

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.

Encounter - Faith - Inspiration - Love - Man

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Belief - Faith - Forgiving - Hope - Hopelessness - Inspiration - Love - Meaning - Success - Unbelievable

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

Adoration - Angels - Faith - Praying

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Teresa of Avila

Saint

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

Faith - Inspiration - Praying - Speaking

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Alan Watts

Philosopher

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Certainty - Faith - God - Nature - People - Religion - Universe

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poet, Poet Laureate of the U.K.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Doubt - Faith - Feelings - Honesty

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