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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A library implies an act of faith. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ↗

— Dean Inge

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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. ↗

— Dean Inge

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