Famous Quotes

"In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief."

Georg Simmel on Faith

More quotes about Faith

• "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

  Mother Teresa on Faith

• "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Faith

• "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Faith

• "All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."

  Martin Luther on Faith

• "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Faith

More quotes by Georg Simmel

• "For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction."

• "Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it."

• "Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."

• "Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."