Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 126 Faith quotesFaith QuotesFaith Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The concept of a Supreme Being who childishly demands to be constantly placated by prayers and sacrifice and dispenses justice like some corrupt petty judge whose decisions may be swayed by a bit of well-timed flattery should be relegated to the trash bin of history, along with the belief in a flat earth and the notion that diseases are caused by demonic possession. Ironically, the case for the involuntary retirement of God may have been best stated by one Saul or Paul of Tarsus, a first-century tentmaker and Pharisee of the tribe of Benjamin, who wrote, 'When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things' (I Corinthians 13:11). Those words are no less relevant today than they were two thousand years ago.~ John J. Dunphy Government of the self was the original basis for republican government, reflecting the view that civil society was much more than politics. Society was made up of men and women who gave order to their lives by entering into associations on a voluntary basis, quite apart from government, for all the various reasons of fellowship, philanthrophy, faith and commerce.~ Hans L. Eicholz 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 They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the Divine Rights of the Common Man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Every man – in the development of his own personality – has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man’s essential nature.~ Thomas I. Emerson Fate is an open road, and all you can do is put your foot on the gas and Drive, Baby Drive.~ Padraig Flynn Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.~ Felix Frankfurter Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.~ Viktor Frankl Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.~ Benjamin Franklin If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.~ Erich Fromm He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.~ Dr. Thomas Fuller In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.~ Galileo Galilei You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.~ Khalil Gibran Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.~ Adolf Hitler Some things have to be believed to be seen.~ Ralph Hodgson [T]he greatest problem facing the United States today is not racism; it is the disappearance of the can-do attitude that built the country, ... We’ve lost the sense of individual responsibility for our problems, and that’s bad enough. But what’s worse, we’re losing faith in our ability to solve our problems. This acquired sense of helplessness is catastrophic, and it has paralyzed large swaths of the American public – rural, urban and suburban. … Encouraging dependence upon government not only creates generations of helpless people; it inures them to government’s ineffectiveness.~ Laura Hollis What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print