“Learning does not require faith, just intellect. Obedience requires faith.”
Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery
“Learning does not require faith, just intellect. Obedience requires faith.”
Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery
“Faith does not mean paying lip service. Faith requires commitment.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019
“Evolution and creationism both require faith.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 128
“Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.”
Ted Malloch (1952) American businessman
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 67.
“Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.”
Mark Kingwell (1963) Canadian philosopher
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 3, Virtues And Vices, p. 85.
“Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.”
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Patheos, A Letter to a Certain Christian http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2013/10/12/a-letter-to-a-certain-christian/ (October 12, 2013)
“That would require an unprecedented leap of faith. I don’t do faith, Scorpio said.”
Alastair Reynolds book Absolution Gap
Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 515)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1920s, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
“There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another…”
Libba Bray book The Diviners
Source: The Diviners