Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I live in my own place -
have never copied anyone even half,
and at any master who lacks the grace -
to laugh at himself - I laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility
in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
Non-violence is the article of faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith never makes a confession.
- Henry David Thoreau
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
- D. Elton Trueblood
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith can move mountains.
- Anonymous
Anchoring in soft mud is dangerous.
Anchor thyself to the rocks of Faith, Compassion, and Service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world
shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
When prayer removes distrust and doubt
and enters the field of mental certainty,
it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
- Ernest Holmes
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
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