George Seaton Quotes

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.