Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. --Eric Hoffer
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. --Henry Miller
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. . . . How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity? --Alexis de Tocqueville
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. --Blaise Pascal
Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it. --Georges Bernanos
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. --Bible: New Testament
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Philosophical Movements
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Taoism
