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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of
his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come
to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was
never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Boldness
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus--Proem (l. 84)
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There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious
faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If
not, have none of it.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
Author: Bible
Source: Hebrews (ch. XI, v. 1)
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For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Author: Bible
Source: II Corinthians (ch. V, v. 7)
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I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:
and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his
appearing.
Author: Bible
Source: II Timothy (ch. IV, v. 7)
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Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the
devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried;
and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto
death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Author: Bible
Source: Revelations (ch. II, v. 10)
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An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Catechism
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"Take courage, soul!
Hold not thy strength in vain!
With faith o'ercome the steeps
Thy God hath set for thee.
Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain
Lieth thine Italy."
Author: Rose Terry Cooke
Source: Beyond
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Source: On the Death of Crashaw (l. 55)
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Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.
Author: Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
Source: to a friend hesitant with respect to infinitestimals, "The Mathematical Experience" by P.J. Davis an
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Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: Poems--Second Series (XXX)
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To take up half on trust, and half to try,
Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. I, l. 141)
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We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried,
"Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"
Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!
What man can look on Death unterrified?
Author: Richard Watson Gilder
Source: Love and Death (st. 2)
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given;
The dearest child of Faith is Miracle
[Ger., Die Botschaft hor' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;
Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (I, 1, 413)
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What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--
They sought a faith's pure shrine!
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
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Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. IV, l. 229), (Pope's translation)
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The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of
faith--and faith will triumph.
Author: General Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre
Source: at unveiling of a statue of Lafayette in Brooklyn
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If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: The Devil Is an Ass (act IV, sc. 1)
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And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too,
not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do
not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and
rightly--faith in God.
Author: Charles Kingsley
Source: Health and Education On Bio-Geology
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all
weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the
sharp mordant of experience.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: My Study Windows--Abraham Lincoln
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O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 213)
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That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, and peace
Of conscience.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 294)
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Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.
Author: John Milton
Source: To Cyriack Skinner
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How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which
to-day are fables to us!
[Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy,
qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XXVI)
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: None
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
Author: Robert Collyer
Source: None
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Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
Author: Ramona C. Carroll
Source: None
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To me faith means not worrying.
Author: John Dewey
Source: None
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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
Author: John Donne
Source: None
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Faith is reason grown courageous.
Author: Sherwood Eddy
Source: None
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
Author: B. C. Forbes
Source: None
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
Author: E. M. Forster
Source: None
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: None
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: None
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: None
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Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
Author: Carter Lindberg
Source: None
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Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
Author: David S. Muzzey
Source: None
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'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.
Author: Friedrich Nietzche
Source: None
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: None
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: None
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Author: Lillian Smith
Source: None
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As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Author: Emmanuel Teney
Source: None
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Author: Thomas Kempis
Source: None
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One day the faithful will have it all!
Author: Neal A. Maxwell
Source: None
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The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.
Author: Oliver Wendel Holmes
Source: None
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
Author: St Augustine
Source: None
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