Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 124 Faith quotesFaith QuotesFaith Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes In their tendencies toward tolerance, openmindedness, faith in people and lack of authoritarianism, selfactualizers do appear to possess psychic strengths which allow them to work well in situations marked by a diversity of viewpoints.~ Jeanne Knutson No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.~ Harold J. Laski Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.~ Harold D. Lasswell A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.~ John Lilly We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.~ Abraham Lincoln Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.~ Abraham Lincoln When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.~ Niccolo Machiavelli Whilst we assert a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to choose minds who have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.~ James Madison The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.~ H. L. Mencken Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable.~ H. L. Mencken No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.~ H. L. Mencken Religious liberty is primarily a man’s liberty to profess a faith different from that of the dominant religion, and to unite in public worship with those who share his faith.~ Giovanni Miegge Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart Mill Let us forget such words, and all they mean, as Hatred, Bitterness and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry. Let us renew our faith and pledge to Man, his right to be Himself, and free.~ Edna St. Vincent Millay Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.~ Ashley Montague Belief means not wanting to know what is true.~ Friedrich Nietzsche No external force will ever succeed in making you 'want what you do not want and believe what you do not believe'. A man may take my life, but not my faith.~ Gerhard Oestreich Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.~ Ovid Time makes more converts than reason.~ Thomas Paine Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print