I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.
Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.