Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

I don't question God.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

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.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

I realize that people need something to believe in.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.