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It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.

— Jacques Maritain Science and Wisdom (1954)

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To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

An Essay on Christian Philosophy (1955)

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

The Range of Reason (1952)

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968)

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

Christianity and Democracy (1943)

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

Ransoming the Time (1941)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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