Faith

(80 votes)   Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,'' but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

John Wesley
1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism

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(79 votes)   Without risk there is no faith. Faith is precisely the contradiction between the infinite passion of the individual's inwardness and the objective uncertainty. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

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(76 votes)   It was the schoolboy who said, ''Faith is believing what you know ain't so.''

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(75 votes)   It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Annie Dillard
1945-, American Author, Poet

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(71 votes)   Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(70 votes)   Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Viktor E. Frankl
1905-, Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurology, Writer, ''Man's Search for Meaning''

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(69 votes)   Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(68 votes)   Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

Source Unknown

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(66 votes)   It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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(66 votes)   The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(66 votes)   When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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(64 votes)   When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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(61 votes)   Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(60 votes)   Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

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(59 votes)   Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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