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"An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason."

Jon Meacham 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 Jon Meacham

  • "A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play."

  • "Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard."

  • "I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived."

  • "Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power."

  • "Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard."

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