“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
Fe que no duda es fe muerta.
La Agonía del Cristianismo (The Agony of Christianity) (1931)
“A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.”
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 396.
“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
“Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church
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Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Source: The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 290
“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”
John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (2004)
Context: We are, the great spiritual writers insist, most fully ourselves when we give ourselves away, and it is egotism that holds us back from that transcendent experience that has been called God, Nirvana, Brahman, or the Tao.
What I now realize, from my study of the different religious traditions, is that a disciplined attempt to go beyond the ego brings about a state of ecstasy. Indeed, it is in itself ekstasis. Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, or self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
“It's our faith that activates the power of God.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VIII : From God to God
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923–2006) US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale
The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984), p. 65.
Alternate version" Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.
in "Christianity as an enfolding circle," U.S. News & World Report (June 26, 1989), p. 57