Anton Chekhov Quotes

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

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

I've always had great faith in people.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.