Faith Quotes

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

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"The only true religion is the religion of morality."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Religion is the people's consciousness before it becomes science."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Man knoweth not the things of man, but by the Spirit of man which is in him"
Berkeley, George
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"I may be foolish, but I have a strong faith in my convictions"
Berkeley, George
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"God is a spirit, but he is not the spirit of the world"
Berkeley, George
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"The moment you lose the sense of the sacred, you cease to be human"
Berkeley, George
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"The foundation of morality is the nature of God"
Berkeley, George
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"The only true knowledge is the knowledge of God"
Berkeley, George
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"We ought not to regard the world as the work of God the way a smith regards the work of his hands"
Berkeley, George
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"In the landscape of faith, there is no such thing as too much"
Berkeley, George
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"The root of all evil is the love of money without love of God"
Berkeley, George
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"In the darkness of doubt, faith is the light that guides us"
Berkeley, George
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"Faith in humanity is restored by witnessing human virtue in action."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Faith is most profound when it exists alongside doubt and uncertainty."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Religious sanctions enforce obedience through fear of divine punishment."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The only true alternative is between Christ and despair."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but to change the nature of the one who prays."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Faith is precisely the paradox that the inward passion is exactly commensurable with an absurdity."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Being a Christian is not defined by ethnicity or culture, but by a radical personal choice."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Each person must work out their own salvation with fear and trembling."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"God loves those who love in return."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The real test of faith comes when you must believe without evidence."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The highest truth is that which is paradoxical and absurd to reason."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Christianity gave eros poison to drink; he did not die of it certainly, but degenerated into vice."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The greatest religion is to be true to this life, to make the most of it."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Religion is a system of duties, not of beliefs."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Religion is the opium of the people."
Marx, Karl
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"Religion is the form in which truth appears to those who cannot grasp it intellectually."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Faith without reason is blind; reason without faith is empty."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich