Quotes about "Faith & Spirituality"

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. ”

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. ”

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. ”

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ”

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ”

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ”

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. ”

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. ”

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love. ”

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. ”