Faith

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  • Blind belief is dangerous.
        Kenyan Proverb   Best?
  • All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
        Sir Richard F. Burton   Best?
  • Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
        John Kerry   Best?
  • Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
        Karl Marx   Best?
  • An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
        T.S. Elliot   Best?
  • Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
        Margaret Cho   Best?
  • Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.
        Phil Donahue   Best?
  • I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
        William Arthur Ward   Best?
  • I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
        Marva Collins   Best?
  • Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
        Samuel P. Huntington   Best?
  • I count religion but a childish toy,
        Christopher Marlowe   Best?
  • To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
        Percy Bysshe Shelley   Best?
  • Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
        William Wordsworth   Best?
  • There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
        Phaedrus   Best?
  • If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
        Thomas Fuller   Best?
  • We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
        Shelley Winters   Best?
  • I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
        Rita Rudner   Best?
  • With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
        Steven Weinberg   Best?
  • The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • We are not separate from spirit, we are in it.
        Plotinus   Best?
  • Out of the frying pan into the fire.
        Quintus Septimius Tertullianus   Best?
  • Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
        Horace   Best?
  • I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
        Themistocles   Best?
  • A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
        Homer   Best?
  • Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
        John Lennon   Best?
  • George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.
        Al Gore   Best?
  • The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
        Albert Einstein   Best?

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