In other words, 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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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