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“Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.”

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Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

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Book:Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

“A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

Source: Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence

“The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principals. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts; to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign forever.”

“Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the way there is no going, without the truth there is no knowing, without life there is no living.”

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Book:John: The Gospel of Belief

Source: John: The Gospel of Belief

“Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.”

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Book:Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion

Source: Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion

“We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.”

“To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.”

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Author:Thomas Browne

“All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water.... All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.”

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Author:Simon Mawer