Belief in the Unknown Quotes

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.

Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we’ve scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead.

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.

To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone.

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.

Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

The truest definition of faith is having the belief you're going somewhere that you can't see, whether it's religion or football or learning to ride a bike.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.