“Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.”
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)
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influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos… 1866–1949Related quotes
“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
Aphorisms
“When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again…”
Source: Shadowfever
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 89.
Religious wisdom
“I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.”
from an interview with EWTN news director Raymond Arroyo in August 2003 as reported by Zenit.org, Aug. 24, 2003
2003
“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”
This I Believe (1951)
Context: I believe in human beings, but my faith is without sentimentality. I know that in environments of uncertainty, fear, and hunger, the human being is dwarfed and shaped without his being aware of it, just as the plant struggling under a stone does not know its own condition. Only when the stone is removed can it spring up freely into the light. But the power to spring up is inherent, and only death puts an end to it. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
“Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.”
Call to the Nation
Context: Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/949813370651336707 (6 January 2018)
2018
“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”
Source: The Bourne Ultimatum
“The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak”
Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
Faust's Study
Faust, Part 1 (1808)