Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

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

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

We don't always possess faith in the sense of having a clear embodiment of something to hang on to. The relationship between the intellect and faith is a very curious one. Sometimes the intellect can point us to faith, sometimes the intellect can stand in the way of faith. Sometimes, as St John of the Cross points out, we have to darken or blind the intellect in order to have faith.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.