"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
"faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it."
"No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept."
"Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them."
"Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle."
"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity"
"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society."
"Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge."
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
"When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?"
"You can't know, you can only believe - or not."
"Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark."
"We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing."
"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."
"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
"I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness."
"Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are."
"The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay."