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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I am grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

When you are thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that is faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that is science.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in Night. I questioned God silence. So I questioned. I do not have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.