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“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.”

Faith Impossible Position Prove Intellectual Negative Strikes Proof Arguing Laziness Mistaken Intellectual Laziness

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”

Kind Shows Political Faith Politics Moral Confidence Intellectual Capacity

Author:George McGovern

“We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.”

Mind Believe Seems Science Faith Belief Opinion Intellectual Research Investigation Disposition Robust Paradoxical Investigators

Author:Claude Bernard

“While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking.”

Thinking World Persons Spirit Faith Emotion Compassion Changed Theory Intellectual Intuition Compare Categories Scholar Humankind Irrational Dividing

Author:Grey Owl

“...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.”

Persons Body Faith Acceptance Intellectual Doctrine

Book:The Mind of St. Paul

Source: The Mind of St. Paul

“The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.”

Inspiration Faith Spirituality Simple Wonder Shapes Intellectual Standards Bases Independence Definitions Christian Inspirational Sense Of Wonder Shape Of Things

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.”

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Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

“I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.”