65+ Blind Faith Quotes

Suchitra Mishra
Mar 16, 2023 By Suchitra Mishra
Originally Published on Feb 27, 2023
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Blind Faith Quote by Catherine Basten

Why Blind Faith Quotes?

Blind faith has a variety of meanings. Some believe blind faith is essential, and some believe the opposite. It has both positive and negative implications.

Blind faith can be based on the politics or religion of a person. It is the belief that we carry inside our minds. As far as politics is concerned, we sometimes have blind faith in a particular leader or party.

People have blind faith that the leader will be responsible for creating a better future for us. But unfortunately, such leaders often break our trust as they fail to stand by their words.

This often hurts the emotions of faithful people. Every community maintains its personal beliefs. Some religious scholars say that the outcome of blind faith is to see what you have believed.

Read further to find a collection of quotes and sayings by famous people regarding blind faith. These quotes will inspire you and your loved ones to lead a life filled with joy and love. Also, share them with your family and friends.

What Parents Should Know

  • Blind faith is something that we create within ourselves based on certain opinions. At some point in our lives, we tend to see what we desire to see and develop blind faith in it.
  • Love is an amalgamation of demands and sacrifices that should be balanced well.
  • Some people say love is blind. It is exactly what having blind faith in love means.
  • Blind faith in each other in a marriage will inspire your kids to follow suit. Certain internal as well as external factors restrict a partner from having blind faith in the other one.

What To Discuss With Kids

  • Kids are like clay and can be molded in any shape. A child tends to copy their parents and their beliefs.
  • When it comes to religious blind faith, it refers to various communities, Christianity, Islam, Jewish, Hinduism, and much more.
  • Blind faith believes in something which has no resources to prove its existence.

Famous Blind Faith Quotes

"Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true." -Max Lucado

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry." -Richard Dawkins

“Do not let your hurt cause you to hate.” – Timothy King

"There's a plane flying over me, and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed." -Ellen MacArthur

"Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind." -Mason Cooley

"Faith does not make things easy; it makes them possible." -Luke

"Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances." -Toni Morrison

"You live, you die, and death not ends it." -Jim Morrison

"Man is always on the way." -Rudolf Bultmann

"All you need is faith, trust, and a little pixie dust." -Peter Pan

"Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and know nothing but the word of God." -Martin Luther

"Without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly." - Hebrews 11:6, KJV

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

Meaningful Blind Faith Quotes

"Faith is realizing you always get what you need." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Faith is placing one's trust in a person. Just because you have evidence for that person's existence does not mean you don't trust them." -Moses

"Un-forgiveness is like debris; if you continue to pile them up, your mind will be occupied with the unwanted, and there would be no space for the needed.” – Anikor Daniel

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." -Mark Twain

"When faith and hope fail, as they sometimes do, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why." -Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

"For me, hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility." -Modesitt Jr.

"The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions." -Rudolf Bultmann

"Feed your faith, and your fears will starve." -Max Lucado

"By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second." -Criss Jami, Killosophy

"You may be right. There may be no one greater than you or me. But that 'blind faith' kept me alive, and if you ask me, you're no different. If you've truly given up, why do you keep trying?" -J. Kowallis

"Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other." – Thomas S. Monson

"Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be." -Kirsten Beyer

"Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardoned sin." -Thomas Huxley

"There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." -Rudolf Bultmann

"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith." -Margaret Shepard

"One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires- and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing." -Thomas Sowell

"The person who thinks with their own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything. Better an error consciously committed and in good faith than a good action performed in a servile manner." -Errico Malatesta

"Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world." -James Randi

"Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation." -James Randi

"Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth." -James Dillet Freeman

"Faith is not a leap in the dark; it's the exact opposite. It's a commitment based on evidence." -John Lennox

"It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevocably formed by science." -Rudolf Bultmann

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." -Albert Einstein

"As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides." -George Whitefield

"A blind acceptance of New Testament mythology would be simply arbitrariness; to make such acceptance a demand of faith would be to reduce faith to a work." -Rudolf Bultmann

"In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." -Blaise Pascal

Inspirational Blind Faith Quotes

"Strive to love, anticipate with hope, believe in faith." -Book by Catherine Basten

"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such." -Richard Dawkins

"Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it." -Oscar Wilde

"God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is." -Justin Villanueva

"When your vision is clear, have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is taking you." -Jesse Lyn Stoner

"Accept what is. Let go what was. Have faith in what will be." -Sonia Ricotti

"Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else." -Abhijit Naskar

"Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!" -Fred Van Lente

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." -Saint Augustine

"Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus." -Alistair Begg

"Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith, or it loses its flavor." -Helen Rowland

"To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith." -Charles Spurgeon

"All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene." -James Bovard

"Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives." -Alistair Begg

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain." -George McGovern

"I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backward instead of forward, who are for tradition, not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live." -Salman Rushdie

Thoughtful Blind Faith Quotes

"I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought." -Mortimer Adler

"It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual's experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light." -Criss Jami, Killosophy

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed." -Bruce Springsteen

"It can be hard to forgive and let go, but it’s important to remember that harboring the resentment and holding a grudge can hurt you even more. The word forgive really means to give something up for yourself, not for them.” –Jack Canfield

"God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat." -Martin Luther

"The hardest thing in life is to forgive. But hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate, you’re hurting yourself. Forgiveness is healing.” –Louis Zamperini

"I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing." -Andy Jassy

"Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith." -H.P.Blavatsky

"To look at them, leaning against the counter in the tiny kitchen, is to understand the connection between farming, itself an act of blind faith, and religion. If you can believe in a year's worth of corn or beans, it seems, you can believe in anything." -Nick Reding

"The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most." -John Andreas

"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition." -E.O.Wilson

"Actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them." -Nance O'Neil

"It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion." -John Lennox

"It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it." -Rosalia

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Written by Suchitra Mishra

Bachelor of Arts and Law

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Suchitra MishraBachelor of Arts and Law

With a Bachelor's degree in Law from University Law College, Bhubaneswar, and a passion for writing, Suchitra has a diverse background in producing content ranging from beauty and fashion to e-commerce. She is skilled in expressing their thoughts through journaling and enjoys reading detective fiction and mystery genres. In addition to her literary pursuits, she possesses an adventurous spirit and enjoys traveling to new places.

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