Faith Quotes

Belief in something greater, whether divine, human, or simply possible.

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"The decline of Christendom in the West is the root cause of the spiritual malaise of the modern age."
Christopher Dawson
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"Faith is not opposed to reason but provides the context within which reason can flourish."
Christopher Dawson
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"The human person is made for communion with God and with others; deny this and you deny fundamental human nature."
Christopher Dawson
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"The modern world has inherited Christian morality while rejecting Christian faith, a contradiction that cannot long endure."
Christopher Dawson
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"A culture that forgets how to pray has forgotten how to think clearly about the deepest things."
Christopher Dawson
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"The Christian tradition provides the deepest resources for understanding human nature and the path to genuine flourishing."
Christopher Dawson
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"Faith is believing in what we cannot yet prove."
Marc Bloch
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"Faith without doubt is mere superstition."
Oswald Spengler
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"Faith is the conviction that meaning exists."
Oswald Spengler
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"Medieval man lived between two worlds - the earthly and the divine."
Jacques Le Goff
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"The medieval mind understood something we have lost: the sacred is everywhere."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Faith is not certainty; it is trust in spite of doubt."
Jacques Le Goff
"Faith gives meaning to existence."
Fernand Braudel
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"A civilization that has lost its myths has lost its soul."
Oswald Spengler
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"Monotheism may be a logical development, but it is also a perilous one for human freedom."
Arnold Toynbee
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"Faith is not belief without evidence; it is trust in what is to come."
Margaret Mead
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"Faith is the assurance of things hoped for."
Margaret Mead
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"The great weakness of the modern world is that it has lost the sense of the sacred."
Christopher Dawson
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"The loss of religious tradition has left a void that materialism cannot fill."
Christopher Dawson
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"The crisis of our age is fundamentally a crisis of faith and meaning."
Christopher Dawson
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"Every lasting civilization has been built upon a foundation of transcendent faith."
Christopher Dawson
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"The secularization of culture has left modern man spiritually homeless."
Christopher Dawson
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"The loss of liturgy and ritual has impoverished the human spirit."
Christopher Dawson
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"A civilization that has lost touch with transcendence has lost its capacity for genuine renewal."
Christopher Dawson
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"A society that forgets God inevitably forgets man as well."
Christopher Dawson
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"The loss of shared religious language has made genuine community increasingly difficult."
Christopher Dawson
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"The human spirit cannot be nourished by bread alone or information alone."
Christopher Dawson
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"A civilization that has lost reverence has lost the capacity for genuine renewal."
Christopher Dawson
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"Without shared conviction about what is sacred, a society cannot generate moral consensus."
Christopher Dawson
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"A society built only on material foundations will eventually collapse under the weight of its own spiritual emptiness."
Christopher Dawson