Duane Michals Quotes

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.

You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.

I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don't believe that.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

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

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these are the believers and agnostics say it's beyond comprehension that the whole issue of God us unknowable. You might be interested to know that perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th century Einstein, the one time that he actually used one of these appellations was in a letter about five years before he died and he referred to himself as an agnostic.

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.