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- All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own. - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
- God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
- Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. - Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226), "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
- Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
- He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
- The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school’s curriculum.
- George F. Will (1941 - ), Newsweek, July 4, 2005
- I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
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