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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
(William James (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. "The Will to Believe," New World (June 1896).)
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Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
(Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. The priest Jehoiada, in Athaliah, act 1, sc. 1 (1691).)
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For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
(Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.), Greek didactic poet. Works and Days, 372.)
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "The Over-Soul," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
(Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680), British divine, philosopher. "The Agreement of Reason and Religion," Essay V, p. 21, Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, photo-reproduction edition, Johnson Reprint Corp., New York (1970).
Statement of the relation of faith and reason of the Latitudinarians.)
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith—faith and freedom.
(Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Trans. by Francis Steegmuller. The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert, letter, October 2, 1856, to Léon Laurent-Pichat (Farrar, Strauss and Young, 1953).)
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Have faith, and a score of hearts will show
Their faith in your word and deed.
(Madeline Bridges (fl. C. 1840), U.S. poet. Life's Mirror (l. 7-8). . ;
pseudonym of Mary Ainge de Vere World's Best Loved Poems, The. James Gilchrist Lawson, comp. (1927) Harper & Row.)
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Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.
(Paul Tillich (1886-1965), German-born U.S. theologian. "The Life of Faith," The Dynamics of Faith, Harper (1958).)
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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Dorian Gray, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 17 (1891).)
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Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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