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Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

 

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

 

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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.

 

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This is what I believe:
That I am I.
That my soul is a dark forest.
That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.
That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.
That I must have the courage to let them come and go.
That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.
There is my creed.

 

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Disillusion comes only

 

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The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

 

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Democracy is itself, a religious faith

 

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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

 

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Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

 

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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.

 

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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

 

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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

 

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A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.

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We do not believe in immortality because we

 

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can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

 

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The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions -- social, economic, and political -- of the common life.

 

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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

 

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Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet: it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of time and right into Eternity, which is not theend of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, the old Eternal Now.

 

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Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the

 

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The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and blows them out.