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Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems. -- Lee Strobel
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. -- Michael Shermer
The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
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? -- Clifford D. Simak
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. -- Richard Dawkins
To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. -- Julia Sweeney
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. -- Jon Meacham
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
Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented. -- Ellen G. White
Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward. -- David A. Bednar
Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. -- Duane Chapman
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater. -- Robert Gottlieb
I have a good Muslim friend who comes over to my house. Good guy; reads the Qur'an in Arabic. He comes over to my house and we talk about faith and we talk about things we have in common, but I can't shy away from the differences that we have. So I talk about why I'm not a Muslim and about the evidence that exists that show Christianity is true. -- Lee Strobel
If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence. -- Paloma Faith
Faith is the evidence of the unseen. -- Maya Angelou
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption. -- John Calvin
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. -- Sam Harris
Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence. -- Bertrand Russell
There's no point of having faith if you have evidence. -- Richard Dawkins
Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen. -- Charlotte Mason
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. -- Archibald Alexander Hodge
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes. -- Robert Breault
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. -- John Henry Newman
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed. -- Gore Vidal
Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence. -- Howard W. Hunter
Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing. -- Lee Strobel
Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence. -- John Lennox
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. -- Richard Dawkins
Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. -- Jane Goodall
Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith. -- L. Whitney Clayton
The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit. -- Paul Washer
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice. -- Thomas Aquinas
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV) -- Anonymous
Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God. -- John Wesley
I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences. -- Clarence Jordan
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. -- John Calvin
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. -- Ambrose Bierce
In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith. -- Michael Shermer
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. -- Ambrose Bierce
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. -- Richard Dawkins
Faith in Christ is not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on established evidence. -- Hank Hanegraaff
Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true. -- Alistair Begg
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person." -- Walter Kaufmann
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith. -- William Arthur Ward
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. -- Sam Harris
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. -- Walter Kaufmann
I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all. -- Christopher Hitchens
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. -- Sherwood Eddy
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science. -- Michael Shermer
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. -- Sherwood Eddy
What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith. -- Barry Lyga
We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. -- J. C. Ryle
Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!" -- E.W. Kenyon
This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand. -- Harry S. Truman
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death... It's possible. Even when you have no evidence to point to.... It's possible... -- Les Brown
Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence. -- Lee Strobel
Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith. -- Andrew Murray
Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue. -- Jack McDevitt
It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes. -- Henry B. Eyring
Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain. -- Elisabeth Elliot
After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. -- Christopher Moore
The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence. -- Victor J. Stenger
[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality. -- Vincent Bugliosi
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for... False Evidence Appearing Real. -- Wayne Dyer
Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in? -- David Alan Harvey
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'. -- Alister E. McGrath
To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect, -- A.C. Grayling
Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values. -- Kenneth D. Wald
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. -- Richard Dawkins

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