Definition of faith please?

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Here are some I have found:

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking." -Bill Maher

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." — Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758.

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner

"How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today." - Michel de Montaigne

"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it." - Dalai Lama

"A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt." - Henri Frédéric Amiel

"Faith is not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth." - Samuel Butler

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!" - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted." - Albert Pike

"Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Faith is the belief in something you know does not exist."--Mark Twain

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All wonderful.

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The theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will.

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That about covers it!

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Belief in the absence of evidence.

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well it seems you have already found what you were looking for..... simple answers from simple minded people...... hmmm...... go in peace..... God bless

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Fantastic quotes!!! BRAVO! yes I agree with those! hugs!

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Believing what you know ain't so.

Mark Twain or Yogi Berra... can't remember which... lol

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Trusting in something that cannot be proven and is not likely to be true.

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen

Hebrews 11

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Superstition

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Substance of things hope for the evidence of things unseen.

For if you see it why yet do you hope for it?

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Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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circumcision...

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Hebrews 11: 1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Believing something without evidence, and in some cases, against what the evidence tells you.

Your quotes are spot on.

And to preempt the fundies, Psalm 14:1 --where even fools have discover there isn't a God.

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The word “faith” is translated from the Greek pi′stis, primarily conveying the thought of confidence, trust, firm persuasion. Depending on the context, the Greek word may also be understood to mean “faithfulness” or “fidelity.”—1Th 3:7; Tit 2:10.
The Scriptures tell us: “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Heb 11:1) “Assured expectation” translates the Greek word hy‧po′sta‧sis. This term is common in ancient papyrus business documents. It conveys the idea of something that underlies visible conditions and guarantees a future possession. In view of this, Moulton and Milligan suggest the rendering: “Faith is the title deed of things hoped for.” (Vocabulary of the Greek Testament, 1963, p. 660) The Greek word e′leg‧khos, rendered “evident demonstration,” conveys the idea of bringing forth evidence that demonstrates something, particularly something contrary to what appears to be the case. Thereby this evidence makes clear what has not been discerned before and so refutes what has only appeared to be the case. “The evident demonstration,” or evidence for conviction, is so positive or powerful that faith is said to be it.

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Faith is trusting your gut instinct when there is no logical reason to do so.

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Faith doesn't work no more in this lifetime my friend, is all about money, education and business.

Don't wait for faith to fix all your problems, but go and fixed them yourself.

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faith is the belief in something... usually something that has no physical evidence to support it.

for instance i have faith that i can trust my 5 senses and that i am not really in something like the matrix where a computer is making me think i am experiencing this world around me.

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"Faith s living by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Jesus Christ.

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"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" Hebrew 11:1

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You can't see gravity but you feel its effects even if you can't solve the math equation that describes it.

You can't hold the wind but it does touch you.

Light is neither a particle or a wave but both and you need it to see even though you really don't know what it is.

Faith is believing something you can't see is real because you trust the source that is telling you its there.

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Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God

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I am a muslim


its the truth because its from God (allah) the same god of jesus, moses, issac, noah, mohammed, saleh, solomon and all the prophets. the difference is muslims and prohphet mohammed took great care in collecting the quran when it was revelead to him from gabriel and preserved it letter by letter since knowadays it is excatly the same as it was revelead to the prophet

islam allows you direct connection to god and is really spirtiually truthful. it teaches you good etiqute and maners and tells you to respect others. help the poor. help the orphans. take care of your neighboors. Dont supress people. Dont harm people. Islam aslo gave rights for animals and ordered us not to harm them for no reason. Islam gave woman tooo many rights that only latley some nations in the west gave while muslim woman had those rights hundereds of years earlier. islam tells us to seek education and not to force people to accept islam it only says educate people about islam but dont force them if they dont want to . islam gave rights to prisoners of wars. gave right of a trial . banned interest and alchol.

Banned RACISM !! an african muslim is the brother of an arab muslim and a brother of an asian muslim and a brother of a european or american muslim all muslims are 100% equal color is nothing. All 1.6 billion muslims are brothers and sisters.

look at the Rwandan genocide the only people in the country who didnt join the bloodshed where muslims. during those 100 days of horor being in a muslim house was the safest place in the country.

its the truth i am not braging,

Check out the following
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAiS9QX7I…
http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/predic…
http://www.islamweb.net/mainpage/index.p…
http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthr…

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I am a muslim