The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
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.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.