Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along. -
I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand. -
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. -
In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. -
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
- To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
- Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.