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"Faith ... is the unspoiled seed, the cause of abilities; Faith grows into the tree of Awakening."
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Faith"Buddhism does not demand blind faith from its adherents. Here mere belief is dethroned and is substituted by confidence based on knowledge, which, in Pali, is known as Saddha. The confidence placed by a follower on the Buddha is like that of a sick person in a noted physician, or a student in his teacher."
In religion, faith is the "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion".
"Faith ... is the unspoiled seed, the cause of abilities; Faith grows into the tree of Awakening."
"How sweet to have a common faith! To hold a common scorn of death!"
"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I dont argue with it — especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible."
"Ive never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith — it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe."
"We walk by faith, not by sight."