Vannevar Bush Quotes

I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

Religions do not teach doubt.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I'm unashamed in my faith, and I'm okay with that.

Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.