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  Faith Quotes I Believe in Evidence   “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” ― Alfred, Lord Tennyson   “Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?" Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.” ― Isaac Asimov   “To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for th...

  Faith Quotes Faith Is About What You Do   “But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.” ― Jim Butcher, Changes   “In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.” ― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light   “If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.” ― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide   “I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state ...

  Faith Quotes Define Yourself Radically   There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of divinity is a mighty jump from the rational over to the unknowable, and I don't care how diligently scholars of every religion will try to sit you down with their stacks of books and prove to you through scripture that their faith is indeed rational; it isn't. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be - by definition - faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love   “Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every othe...

  Faith Quotes We have a Choice   “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” ― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin   “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.” ― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael   “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass   “The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.” ― Ez...

  Faith Quotes My Soul is in the Sky   “I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.” ― Albert Einstein   “My soul is in the sky.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream   “Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.” ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons   “Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass   “Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase aw...

  Faith Quotes The Simple Path According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)” ― Deepak Chopra, SynchroDestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles   “Some things have to be believed to be seen.” ― Madeleine L'Engle   “Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.” ― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story   “Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that ...