A Quote by Thomas a Kempis

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas a Kempis
German - Priest
1380 - 1471

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.

Lynn G. Robbins

God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.

Mother Teresa

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

George H. Smith

Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.

Boyd K. Packer

Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

Thomas S. Monson

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Anton Chekhov

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Dean Koontz

Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

Oswald Chambers

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

Tariq Ramadan

Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed.

David Peoples

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

Jorge Luis Borges

The Judo pupil, therefore, must cultivate his mind; he must never feel fear, never lose his temper, never be off his guard; but he must be cool and calm, though not absent-minded; he must act as quick as thought, according to circumstances. He must also be dexterous as well as bold both in attack and in defense.