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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

— Henry Miller

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

— Max Planck

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

— James Altucher

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

— Martin Luther

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

— Walter Isaacson

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

— Helen Keller

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

— Ram Dass

Faith is a passionate intuition.

— William Wordsworth

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

— Thomas Dekker

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

— Ray Comfort

✗Opposing Perspectives

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

— George Sand