“What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?”
— James 2:14
“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
— Max Lucado
“Trust in God’s goodness.Be wary of what humans do in God’s name.Not everyone who claims to speak for God is righteous.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
— Alan Watts
“I don’t doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.”It’s religion I’m doubting.”
— Bono
“To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”
— Eric Hoffer
“Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
— Alan Watts