Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
Variant: Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
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“It should be noticed that the whole approach is in contradiction to generally accepted views.”
Source: Theory of Economic Dynamics (1965), Chapter 1, Cost and Prices, p. 17
“Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it’ll be okay because of God.”
Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 33
Variant: I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Source: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 42.
Context: There can be no doubt that Jesus was a remarkably cheerful person and that his joy, like his faith and hope, was infectious. This was in fact the most characteristic and most noticeable difference between Jesus and John. As we shall see later, Jesus feasted while John fasted (Luke 7:31-34).
