Faith

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FAITH: Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

FAITH: Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. (Corrie ten Boom, Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust, but who was arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, 1892-1983)

FAITH: Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. (St. Augustine, Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

FAITH: Faith is a passionate intuition. (William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

FAITH: Faith is knowing there is an ocean when you can only see the stream. (Unknown source)

FAITH: Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

FAITH: The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. (Alan Watts, British philosopher, best known as an interpreter of Eastern philosophy, 1915-1973)

FAITH: To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

FAITH: Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

FAITH: Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. (Unknown source)

FAITH: I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. (Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister on three occasions, 1867-1947)

FAITH: Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. (David Wolpe, U.S. Jewish rabbi Named the most influential rabbi in the U.S. by Newsweek Magazine and one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post, Born 1958)