Faith Quotes

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

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"There never was a man who saw the gods, nor will there be one who sees them clearly."
Xenophanes
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"The invisible god is invisible to sight."
Xenophanes
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"Religion is the invention of fearful minds seeking comfort."
Xenophanes
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"The greatest god is unlike any mortal form."
Xenophanes
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"One cannot know the divine through the senses alone."
Xenophanes
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"What we call divine is merely the unknown seeking explanation."
Xenophanes
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"All religions are equally valid and equally suspect."
Xenophanes
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"The gods do not reveal themselves to the senses but only to reason."
Xenophanes
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"One universal god exists beyond all human conceptions."
Xenophanes
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"The divine, if it exists, is utterly unlike our earthly forms."
Xenophanes
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"The invisible and the divine are one and the same."
Xenophanes
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"All religions contain fragments of truth mixed with human error."
Xenophanes
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"The divine cannot be confined to any single form or doctrine."
Xenophanes
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"The invisible god is the only god worthy of worship."
Xenophanes
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"The gods, if they exist, remain forever beyond human comprehension."
Xenophanes
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"The divine is so unlike mortals as to be utterly incomprehensible."
Xenophanes
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"All religions describe the same incomprehensible reality in different languages."
Xenophanes
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"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
Aristophanes
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"Faith is the courage to believe in what you cannot see."
Aristophanes
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"Aphrodite, immortal, with mind embroidered, daughter of Zeus, I beg you do not crush me with heartache."
Sappho
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"We build temples to the gods, but the truest temple is the human heart."
Sappho
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"The universe is governed by intelligence, not chance."
Anaxagoras
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"Every living creature possesses a spark of the infinite within it."
Anaximander
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"When one is in trouble, one remembers God."
Euripides
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"Oh, that estate, mystery, and magic might be dead."
Euripides
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"Chance is god's alias."
Euripides
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"One god, greatest among gods and men, neither in form like mortals nor in thought."
Xenophanes
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"The gods envy those mortals who claim to understand them completely."
Xenophanes
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"Those who claim to understand the divine understand only themselves."
Xenophanes
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"Reverence for the gods and respect for parents constitute the whole of piety."
Sophocles