| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Alan Watts | To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. | 101 |
| Billy Graham | The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. | 101 |
| Bruce Lee | Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. | 101 |
| Christopher Hitchens | Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. | 101 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. | 101 |
| Ben Carson | Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams. | 101 |
| Joel Osteen | I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors. | 101 |
| Saint Ignatius | Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord. | 101 |
| Albert Bandura | People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives. | 101 |
| Ayrton Senna | If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear. | 101 |
| Ben Stein | Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. | 101 |
| Bernie Siegel | Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. | 101 |
| Chester W. Nimitz | That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. | 101 |
| Chuck Close | My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference. | 101 |
| Feisal Abdul Rauf | The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. | 101 |
| Francis Parker Yockey | As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. | 101 |
| Franz Liszt | Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. | 101 |
| Imre Lakatos | If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. | 101 |
| Kristin Armstrong | I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. | 101 |
| Monica Crowley | True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. | 101 |
| Peyton Manning | I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since. | 101 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. | 101 |
| Saint Bernard | I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. | 101 |
| Thomas Becket | Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. | 101 |
| Tony Benn | A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. | 101 |
| William Ames | From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. | 101 |
| Andrea Dworkin | Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. | 101 |
| Aretha Franklin | My faith always has been and always will be important to me. | 101 |
| Benny Hinn | What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth. | 101 |
| Christopher Fry | Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. | 101 |
| Duane Chapman | Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. | 101 |
| Edward McKendree Bounds | Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty. | 101 |
| Gail Devers | Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. | 101 |
| Gregory Peck | Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. | 101 |
| Pat Summitt | Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease. | 101 |
| Simon Schama | In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics. | 101 |
| Tom Lehman | To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going. | 101 |
| Whittaker Chambers | A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. | 101 |
| Adoniram Judson | Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world. | 101 |
| Conrad Black | A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. | 101 |
| D. Elton Trueblood | Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. | 101 |
| Edith Hamilton | Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. | 101 |
| Eleanor Clift | If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one. | 101 |
| Garth Ennis | I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. | 101 |
| Heinrich Rohrer | Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow. | 101 |
| Holly Marie Combs | Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever. | 101 |
| J. William Fulbright | In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. | 101 |
| Jackie Speier | As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest. | 101 |
| Jonathan Edwards | Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. | 101 |
| Mahalia Jackson | Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. | 101 |
| Mark Ronson | I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in yourself, until you have a hit you can't really run around telling everyone you're a producer. | 101 |
| Martina McBride | Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what. | 101 |
| Richard Dooling | The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension. | 101 |
| Stephen Ambrose | The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. | 101 |
| Studs Terkel | If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have. | 101 |
| T. B. Joshua | When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. | 101 |
| Tom Mison | I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea. | 101 |
| Walter Rauschenbusch | Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master. | 101 |
| Albert Claude | For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. | 101 |
| Alberta Hunter | Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself. | 101 |
| Ann Cotton | Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling. | 101 |
| Boris Kodjoe | We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter. | 101 |
| Charles Wesley | Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. | 101 |
| Emily Rose | The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible. | 101 |
| Joe Bob Briggs | Faith is like a kernel of wheat. | 101 |
| Joe Garcia | Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough. | 101 |
| Lee Greenwood | When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times. | 101 |
| Mary Manin Morrissey | You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. | 101 |
| Melanie Fiona | I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard. | 101 |
| Peter Akinola | We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once. | 101 |
| Randa Abdel-Fattah | To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. | 101 |
| Armistead Maupin | I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. | 101 |
| Beverly Lewis | Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way. | 101 |
| Clifford D. Simak | What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian? | 101 |
| Do Won Chang | I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them. | 101 |
| Emmanuel Teney | As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. | 101 |
| Ephraim Mirvis | My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith. | 101 |
| Ernst Fischer | In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. | 101 |
| Jane Grey | I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church. | 101 |
| John Thune | Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions. | 101 |
| Jonathan Galassi | Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism. | 101 |
| Joseph Jarman | But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith. | 101 |
| Mark Batterson | I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does. | 101 |
| Mordecai Wyatt Johnson | The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . | 101 |
| Peter Conrad | Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. | 101 |
| Ron Suskind | The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. | 101 |
| Ronnie Musgrove | The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith. | 101 |
| Barbara Smith | Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. | 101 |
| Chris Weitz | 'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie. | 101 |
| Theodosius Dobzhansky | Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. | 101 |
| Judy Collins | I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. | 101 |
| Robert Higgs | We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of great difficulties and obstacles. If people could keep society running in the aftermath of the Black Death, they could keep it running after the U.S. government defaulted on its debt. | 101 |
| Ron Pope | We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being. | 101 |
| Sherwood Eddy | Faith is reason grown courageous. | 101 |
| Stephen Samuel Wise | Vision looks upward and becomes faith. | 101 |
| James L. Buckley | In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. | 101 |
| Arthur Holly Compton | It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' | 101 |
| Austin Farrer | Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. | 101 |
| Judith Hill | I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person. | 101 |
| Jud Wilhite | We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So when we are in the mess, remember Jesus made it right. We got to hang on to that by faith. | 101 |
| Jacqueline Cochran | It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. | 101 |
| James Hal Cone | Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her. | 101 |
| Steve Jobs | Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.  | 102 |
| Norman Vincent Peale | Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. | 102 |
| Saint Augustine | Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. | 102 |
| Victoria Osteen | As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you! | 102 |
| Brad Henry | Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish. | 102 |
| Dwight L. Moody | God never made a promise that was too good to be true. | 102 |
| Edwin Louis Cole | Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast. | 102 |
| Elizabeth Edwards | You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. | 102 |
| Ernest Holmes | When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. | 102 |
| Fantasia Barrino | Have a little faith. Don't give up. | 102 |
| Feisal Abdul Rauf | The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God. | 102 |
| Francis Spufford | For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need. | 102 |
| Geoffrey Canada | People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better. | 102 |
| George Gurdjieff | 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. | 102 |
| Irving Babbitt | A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. | 102 |
| Isabel Yosito | I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return. | 102 |
| Ishmael Beah | I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views. | 102 |
| Kelly Clarkson | God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. | 102 |
| Kevin Durant | I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better. | 102 |
| Lucille Ball | One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. | 102 |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. | 102 |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. | 102 |
| Nick Rahall | As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer. | 102 |
| Olivier Messiaen | My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. | 102 |
| Oswald Chambers | Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. | 102 |
| Owen D. Young | It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove. | 102 |
| Pat Conroy | It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. | 102 |
| Thomas Becket | Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. | 102 |
| Thornton Wilder | Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. | 102 |
| Vince Neil | I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship. | 102 |
| William Ames | Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. | 102 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. | 102 |
| Yann Martel | Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. | 102 |
| Dallas Willard | God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character. | 102 |
| Gustave Moreau | No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream. | 102 |
| Javier Bardem | I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. | 102 |
| Jim Wallis | The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. | 102 |
| Kenneth Scott Latourette | The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian. | 102 |
| Paula Abdul | Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. | 102 |
| Selma Blair | I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships. | 102 |
| Sharron Angle | You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change. | 102 |
| Tony Snow | To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. | 102 |
| Vannevar Bush | Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. | 102 |
| Charles Hodge | The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. | 102 |
| Dana Goodyear | The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon. | 102 |
| Derek Jacobi | Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. | 102 |
| James Lankford | Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith. | 102 |
| Laurel Lea | Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating. | 102 |
| Nicholas Culpeper | For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. | 102 |
| Patrick White | I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. | 102 |
| Paul Brunton | Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith. | 102 |
| Ben Parr | Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful. | 102 |
| Cedric Richmond | These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back. | 102 |
| Chad Kroeger | It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch. | 102 |
| George Edward Moore | Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. | 102 |
| Lillian Smith | Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. | 102 |
| Pam Ferris | The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded. | 102 |
| Randy Neugebauer | The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country. | 102 |
| Ted Lange | I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it. | 102 |
| Abraham Kuyper | When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. | 102 |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld | But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. | 102 |
| Billy Ray Cyrus | Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. | 102 |
| Bo Sanchez | Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God. | 102 |
| Charles Studd | We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last. | 102 |
| Chubby Checker | God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK. | 102 |
| George Seaton | Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. | 102 |
| Julie Bowen | It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. | 102 |
| Michael Arad | When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly. | 102 |
| Thomas Kuhn | Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. | 102 |
| A. Scott Berg | There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher. | 102 |
| Roger Rosenblatt | If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.' | 102 |
| Ann Jillian | I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings. | 102 |
| Donald Cram | An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted. | 102 |
| Jerry Costello | With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. | 102 |
| Julianna Baggott | I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men. | 102 |
| Monica | I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional. | 102 |
| Susan L. Taylor | Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. | 102 |
| Richard Barnfield | All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. | 102 |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. | 102 |
| Art Bell | The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith. | 102 |
| Jane Clayson | I am a Mormon because I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I exercise faith in Him, I am blessed with the Holy Spirit in my life. | 102 |
| Juan Goytisolo | In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. | 102 |
| Judge Mills Lane | I have great faith in the jury system. | 102 |
| Jerry Reed | Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it. | 102 |
| John Foster Dulles | The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. | 102 |
| Michael Malone | I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure. | 102 |
| John Bacon | We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind. | 102 |
| Saint Augustine | Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. | 103 |
| Ernest Holmes | We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing. | 103 |
| George Muller | Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need. | 103 |
| Ignatius of Antioch | Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith. | 103 |
| Lee Strobel | Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator. | 103 |
| Lester B. Pearson | Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. | 103 |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. | 103 |
| Max Planck | Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' | 103 |
| Miroslav Volf | For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. | 103 |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it. | 103 |
| Origen | Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in. | 103 |
| Orson Pratt | It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects. | 103 |
| Oswald Chambers | The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. | 103 |
| Ray Lewis | Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies. | 103 |
| Reza Aslan | It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible. | 103 |
| Sheri L. Dew | Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. | 103 |
| Tony Campolo | Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. | 103 |
| Victor Ponta | We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end. | 103 |
| William Adams | Faith is a continuation of reason. | 103 |
| Christopher Moore | For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship. | 103 |
| David Viscott | The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. | 103 |
| Deborah Mailman | Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're not that good. It's stupid. There's such an incredible pool of talent out there, and they're still coming out of drama schools. People just need to take a leap of faith. | 103 |
| Derrick Rose | As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come. | 103 |
| Faran Tahir | Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that. | 103 |
| Francis Beaumont | Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. | 103 |
| Jimmy Carr | I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way. | 103 |
| Julia Cameron | Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. | 103 |
| Lucy Powell | There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth. | 103 |
| Madeleine L'Engle | In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come. | 103 |
| Rick Santorum | You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. | 103 |
| Romain Rolland | Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. | 103 |
| William A. Dembski | Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system. | 103 |
| William P. Leahy | I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. | 103 |
| Adam Hamilton | As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives. | 103 |
| Carl Bernstein | In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. | 103 |
| Charles Hodge | If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. | 103 |
| Katherine Webb | As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal. | 103 |
| Luis Fortuno | Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard. | 103 |
| Margaret D. Nadauld | A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her. | 103 |
| Scott Stapp | I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ. | 103 |
| Suzanne Fields | The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. | 103 |
| T. B. Joshua | The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace. | 103 |
| David Suchet | Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself. | 103 |
| Jesse Helms | I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family. | 103 |
| Michael Chang | I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through. | 103 |
| Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick | I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about. | 103 |
| Dean Cain | I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith. | 103 |
| James Bovard | 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. | 103 |
| Charles Simeon | You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. | 103 |
| Cynthia Heimel | We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck. | 103 |
| Julianna Baggott | Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger. | 103 |
| Martin Chemnitz | This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures. | 103 |
| Matthew Scully | Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures. | 103 |
| Robert Cecil | Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. | 103 |
| Sherwood Eddy | Faith is not contrary to reason. | 103 |
| Julia Sweeney | To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. | 103 |
| Mike McCurry | In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker. | 103 |
| James Freeman Clarke | All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. | 103 |
| George Washington | Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. | 104 |
| Helen Keller | Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. | 104 |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. | 104 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. | 104 |
| Joel Osteen | When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. | 104 |
| Ravi Zacharias | I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' | 104 |
| Zig Ziglar | The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. | 104 |
| Anne Lamott | My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. | 104 |
| Benazir Bhutto | Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age. | 104 |
| Chris Van Allsburg | The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. | 104 |
| Clara Barton | I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. | 104 |
| David A. Bednar | Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. | 104 |
| Ellen G. White | Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. | 104 |
| Emily Bronte | I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal. | 104 |
| Eric Liu | True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. | 104 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation. | 104 |
| Francis Collins | I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday. | 104 |
| Francis Quarles | Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. | 104 |
| George Fox | Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? | 104 |
| Ignatius of Antioch | May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ. | 104 |
| Joseph Smith, Jr. | Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. | 104 |
| Kareena Kapoor Khan | Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. | 104 |
| Lee Strobel | All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith. | 104 |
| Lex Luger | No matter what we face, put your total faith in God, and in time - not our time, but His time - He'll bring us through. | 104 |
| Lord Acton | Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. | 104 |
| Martha Graham | Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. | 104 |
| Os Guinness | Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine. | 104 |
| Philip Yancey | Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families. | 104 |
| Ridley Scott | The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. | 104 |
| Sean Hannity | I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple. | 104 |
| Seth MacFarlane | There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith. | 104 |
| Tertullian | You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. | 104 |
| Tim McGraw | I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience. | 104 |
| Tommy Franks | The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important. | 104 |
| Tony Dungy | People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do. | 104 |
| Vincent Nichols | Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension. | 104 |
| Wentworth Miller | In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds. | 104 |
| Wendy Kopp | The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential. | 104 |
| William Graham Sumner | Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. | 104 |
| Edward McKendree Bounds | Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true. | 104 |
| Eugene Kennedy | The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history. | 104 |
| J. C. Watts | I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it. | 104 |
| Jan Hus | I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ. | 104 |
| John Paul Jones | If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. | 104 |
| Si Robertson | There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom. | 104 |
| Blanche Lincoln | Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. | 104 |
| Brian Schweitzer | And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future. | 104 |
| Dave Gahan | To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while. | 104 |
| Hannah More | If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. | 104 |
| James Lankford | Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent. | 104 |
| Mahalia Jackson | If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. | 104 |
| Matthew Simpson | We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. | 104 |
| Meir Soloveichik | Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues. | 104 |
| Ray Comfort | Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me. | 104 |
| Rick Wakeman | My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other. | 104 |
| Stephen Collins | You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else. | 104 |
| Suzanne Brockmann | Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force! | 104 |
| John Tesh | Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have. | 104 |
| Ryan White | We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. | 104 |
| Amin Maalouf | I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do. | 104 |
| Bede Griffiths | It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. | 104 |
| Maggie Gallagher | To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. | 104 |
| Charles Henry Parkhurst | Faith is the heroism of the intellect. | 104 |
| Stanley Baldwin | I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. | 104 |
| Johan Huizinga | These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. | 104 |
| Juan Goytisolo | In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony. | 104 |
| James Beattie | Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. | 104 |
| Helen Keller | Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. | 105 |
| Billy Graham | Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. | 105 |
| Thomas Aquinas | To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. | 105 |
| Victoria Osteen | Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.' | 105 |
| Michelangelo | I live and love in God's peculiar light. | 105 |
| Corazon Aquino | Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. | 105 |
| Dorothy Day | I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. | 105 |
| Dwight L. Moody | Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. | 105 |
| Ed Gillespie | I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality. | 105 |
| Edwin Louis Cole | Have faith in God; God has faith in you. | 105 |
| Erwin McManus | I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith. | 105 |
| Felix Adler | Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. | 105 |
| Freya Stark | If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. | 105 |
| Gary Bauer | Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact. | 105 |
| George Herbert | Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. | 105 |
| Gustave Flaubert | Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. | 105 |
| Henry B. Eyring | Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. | 105 |
| Marco Rubio | Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all. | 105 |
| Phil Robertson | Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long. | 105 |
| Ramakrishna | If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. | 105 |
| Rick Warren | You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. | 105 |
| Sarah Ban Breathnach | Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true. | 105 |
| Sean Combs | Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me. | 105 |
| Tim Tebow | I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can. | 105 |
| William Wilberforce | I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician. | 105 |
| Willie Aames | God continues to work miracles in my life. | 105 |
| Abdullah of Saudi Arabia | As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible. | 105 |
| Janet Yellen | In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions. | 105 |
| Jeff Miller | The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. | 105 |
| John Wycliffe | It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ. | 105 |
| Lea Thompson | I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me. | 105 |
| Mark Helprin | I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart. | 105 |
| Cullen Hightower | Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. | 105 |
| Margaret D. Nadauld | A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her. | 105 |
| Bob Taft | What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom. | 105 |
| Donald Wuerl | Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible. | 105 |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. | 105 |
| James McGreevey | I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world. | 105 |
| Mary Ann Mobley | I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis. | 105 |
| Rupert Sheldrake | Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. | 105 |
| Shereen El Feki | Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of my father's Egyptian friends questioned his decision not to raise his only child more strictly in the faith. I was not taught salat, the Muslim ritual of prayer, nor did I study Arabic. | 105 |
| Alphonsus Liguori | Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend. | 105 |
| Dan Millman | Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. | 105 |
| Marcia Wallace | 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. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. | 105 |
| John H. Johnson | My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. | 105 |
| Mother Teresa | Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. | 106 |
| Vincent Van Gogh | I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. | 106 |
| Ellen G. White | Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God. | 106 |
| Hans Urs von Balthasar | Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. | 106 |
| Heinrich Heine | Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. | 106 |
| Henry Cavill | This character matters so much to so many people. I want to get that right. I want to do it justice. I want people to believe in the character and have faith in the character and kids to grow up wanting to be Superman. Or, God forbid, there's people who are going through hardship and wishing that this character would turn up and save them. | 106 |
| Huston Smith | I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith. | 106 |
| James E. Faust | A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. | 106 |
| Joseph Addison | To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. | 106 |
| Lawrence Welk | If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. | 106 |
| Lee Strobel | I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems. | 106 |
| Natalie Cole | When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element? | 106 |
| Pierce Brosnan | I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures. | 106 |
| Ralph Marston | The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. | 106 |
| Thomas More | I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. | 106 |
| Walter Martin | God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. | 106 |
| Wislawa Szymborska | Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. | 106 |
| Amy Adams | Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.' | 106 |
| Anne Graham Lotz | When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him. | 106 |
| Damian Lewis | You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. | 106 |
| David Livingstone | All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book. | 106 |
| Douglas Wilder | Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt. | 106 |
| Duane Chapman | You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that. | 106 |
| Franklin Graham | Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith. | 106 |
| Hattie McDaniel | Faith is the black person's federal reserve system. | 106 |
| John Shelby Spong | Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience. | 106 |
| Jonathan Sacks | Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. | 106 |
| Kenneth R. Miller | Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life. | 106 |
| Michele Bachmann | I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness. | 106 |
| Mitch Daniels | All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. | 106 |
| Richard Linklater | Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. | 106 |
| Tamara Ecclestone | I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith. | 106 |
| Dominique Moceanu | For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free. | 106 |
| Tracey Gold | I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing. | 106 |
| David Sarnoff | I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. | 106 |
| Benjamin Whichcote | Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New. | 106 |
| Ravi Zacharias | Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone. | 107 |
| Amy Grant | Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child. | 107 |
| Bobby Bowden | Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left. | 107 |
| Dan Brown | Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. | 107 |
| Denzel Washington | My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. | 107 |
| Frances Wright | All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. | 107 |
| Francis Collins | Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page. | 107 |
| Francis Spufford | I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance what disaster to those you love would be too much to bear faithfully, and like everyone's, my faith is weakly conditional in some ways. I hope, I pray not to lose it. My fingers are crossed. Also my heart. | 107 |
| George MacDonald | The principle part of faith is patience. | 107 |
| Henry B. Eyring | You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost. | 107 |
| Ignatius of Antioch | Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world. | 107 |
| John Calvin | Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? | 107 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us - even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will. | 107 |
| Kris Carr | Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith. | 107 |
| Lech Walesa | I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes. | 107 |
| Novalis | Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. | 107 |
| Oliver Cromwell | Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. | 107 |
| Paul Johnson | Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. | 107 |
| Saint Ambrose | Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show. | 107 |
| Sean Connery | Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. | 107 |
| Simone Weil | The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. | 107 |
| Thomas S. Monson | Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. | 107 |
| William Jennings Bryan | The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. | 107 |
| Wilma Mankiller | I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves. | 107 |
| Aphra Behn | Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow. | 107 |
| Dean Inge | Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. | 107 |
| Herbert Croly | The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. | 107 |
| John L. Lewis | Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied. | 107 |
| John Wycliffe | Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man. | 107 |
| Mohsin Hamid | Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion. | 107 |
| Ruth Benedict | Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. | 107 |
| Terry Eagleton | Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. | 107 |
| Whittaker Chambers | At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. | 107 |
| Allyson Felix | I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift. | 107 |
| El DeBarge | God strengthened me and taught me who I am in Him. He taught me that not only do I need to have faith in Him, but I need to believe in myself again. | 107 |
| Sextus Propertius | By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. | 107 |
| Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick | It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people. | 107 |
| Desmond Morris | No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them. | 107 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. | 108 |
| Blaise Pascal | Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. | 108 |
| Martin Luther | Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. | 108 |
| Bear Grylls | My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times. | 108 |
| Ravi Zacharias | The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide. | 108 |
| Dorothy Day | It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him. | 108 |
| Emile Durkheim | The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. | 108 |
| Fergie | There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder. | 108 |
| Georg Simmel | In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. | 108 |
| Jacques Yves Cousteau | If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. | 108 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. | 108 |
| John Lewis | The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something. | 108 |
| Kris Carr | Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience. | 108 |
| Nick Jonas | My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band. | 108 |
| Nick Vujicic | Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey. | 108 |
| Robin Wright | Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it. | 108 |
| Sandra Bullock | No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that. | 108 |
| Allen West | The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches. | 108 |
| Anne Graham Lotz | One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay. | 108 |
| Emilio Estevez | Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure. | 108 |
| Gayle King | How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill. | 108 |
| Jeremy Lin | In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity. | 108 |
| Ron Chernow | The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. | 108 |
| Soledad O'Brien | I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City. | 108 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends. | 108 |
| Allyson Felix | My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him. | 108 |
| Pat Buckley | I hold that religion and faith are two different things. | 108 |
| Ray Comfort | Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.' | 108 |
| Jean Racine | Is a faith without action a sincere faith? | 108 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. | 109 |
| Ravi Zacharias | I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around. | 109 |
| Charles Stanley | Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. | 109 |
| Christina Rossetti | Obedience is the fruit of faith. | 109 |
| Edwin Louis Cole | Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. | 109 |
| Eric Liu | 'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. | 109 |
| George Gurdjieff | If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. | 109 |
| George Muller | Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried. | 109 |
| George Whitefield | Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies. | 109 |
| Hal Borland | Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. | 109 |
| Hans Urs von Balthasar | Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. | 109 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments. | 109 |
| Kathy Ireland | I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business. | 109 |
| Kirk Cameron | Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. | 109 |
| Paul Wellstone | What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. | 109 |
| Pearl S. Buck | I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. | 109 |
| Ram Dass | When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. | 109 |
| Thomas Huxley | The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. | 109 |
| Thomas S. Monson | I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it. | 109 |
| Tim Tebow | And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve. | 109 |
| Valerie Bertinelli | I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? | 109 |
| Alfonso Cuaron | When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion. | 109 |
| Donny Osmond | Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die. | 109 |
| Georges Bernanos | Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it. | 109 |
| Jean Rostand | Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. | 109 |
| Jeremy Lin | Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. | 109 |
| Jim Wallis | I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held. | 109 |
| Jon Meacham | An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. | 109 |
| Stephen Baldwin | I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak. | 109 |
| Lauren London | I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith. | 109 |
| Richard Dawkins | Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. | 110 |
| Thomas Paine | Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. | 110 |
| Anne Lamott | A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. | 110 |
| E. O. Wilson | Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. | 110 |
| Eric Schlosser | Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins. | 110 |
| Greg Graffin | I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist. | 110 |
| Hayley Williams | Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time. | 110 |
| Helen Rowland | Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. | 110 |
| Iain Duncan Smith | The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives. | 110 |
| Kirk Cameron | We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems. | 110 |
| Marquis de Sade | No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. | 110 |
| Paul Tillich | Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. | 110 |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. | 110 |
| Russell Simmons | Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith. | 110 |
| Thomas S. Monson | Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. | 110 |
| Yo-Yo Ma | Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. | 110 |
| Benny Hinn | We receive by faith and we keep it by faith. | 110 |
| J. C. Watts | The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other. | 110 |
| Kevin DeYoung | At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone. | 110 |
| Kirsten Gillibrand | I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders. | 110 |
| Pranab Mukherjee | Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times. | 110 |
| Tariq Ramadan | Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness. | 110 |
| Thomas Browne | As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. | 110 |
| Abraham Verghese | In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.' | 110 |
| John Ortberg | God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character. | 110 |
| John Piper | The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. | 110 |
| John Woolman | My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. | 110 |
| Timothy Radcliffe | The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. | 110 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. | 111 |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. | 111 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. | 111 |
| David A. Bednar | Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.' | 111 |
| Gary Bauer | It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief. | 111 |
| Joseph Smith, Jr. | A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. | 111 |
| Kailash Satyarthi | Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well. | 111 |
| Keke Palmer | Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith. | 111 |
| Reza Aslan | I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me. | 111 |
| Thomas S. Monson | I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. | 111 |
| Tullian Tchividjian | When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient. | 111 |
| Vincent Nichols | Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it. | 111 |
| Franklin Graham | I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama. | 111 |
| James Cameron | There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith. | 111 |
| Julia Cameron | Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. | 111 |
| Kenneth R. Miller | What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work. | 111 |
| Kevin DeYoung | As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us. | 111 |
| Leonard Susskind | Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably. | 111 |
| Michael Shermer | Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. | 111 |
| Mitch Daniels | All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. | 111 |
| William Gurnall | Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery. | 111 |
| Afrika Bambaataa | The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. | 111 |
| Edwin Hubbel Chapin | Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. | 111 |
| Juliana Hatfield | I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time. | 111 |
| Lynn Abbey | That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. | 111 |
| Mohammed Morsi | I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith. | 111 |
| John Dewey | To me faith means not worrying. | 112 |
| Joel Osteen | I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it. | 112 |
| Alexander Smith | The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. | 112 |
| B. C. Forbes | He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. | 112 |
| Brennan Manning | Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith. | 112 |
| Dan Brown | That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. | 112 |
| Francis Collins | Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith. | 112 |
| George Muller | The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith. | 112 |
| Laurence Sterne | Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. | 112 |
| Pope Paul VI | We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. | 112 |
| Stanley Hauerwas | The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesn't really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam. | 112 |
| Vincent Nichols | The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness. | 112 |
| William Wilberforce | I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives. | 112 |
| Ahmed Zewail | Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims. | 112 |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive. | 112 |
| Augustus Hare | The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. | 112 |
| David Ben-Gurion | Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. | 112 |
| John Ortberg | For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. | 112 |
| Jane Goodall | I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. | 113 |
| Aleister Crowley | I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. | 113 |
| Alfred A. Montapert | Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. | 113 |
| Dorothy Day | Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling. | 113 |
| Elizabeth I | Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. | 113 |
| Ellen G. White | The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love. | 113 |
| Grover Norquist | Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons. | 113 |
| Hal Borland | The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. | 113 |
| Lewis Black | If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them. | 113 |
| Loretta Young | I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. | 113 |
| Mikhail Bakunin | Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. | 113 |
| Myles Munroe | Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them. | 113 |
| Paul Tillich | Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. | 113 |
| Sarah Ban Breathnach | Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest. | 113 |
| Daphne Guinness | We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization. | 113 |
| John Wycliffe | The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues. | 113 |
| Julia Cameron | Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. | 113 |
| Maajid Nawaz | Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society. | 113 |
| Pratibha Patil | Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves? | 113 |
| Abraham Verghese | I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor. | 113 |
| Martin Luther | All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. | 114 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. | 114 |
| Victoria Osteen | When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed. | 114 |
| Anton Chekhov | When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. | 114 |
| Jackie Kennedy | The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future. | 114 |
| Annie Besant | There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith. | 114 |
| Don King | If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread. | 114 |
| Dwight L. Moody | It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? | 114 |
| Karen Armstrong | The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. | 114 |
| Karl Barth | Faith is never identical with piety. | 114 |
| Miguel de Unamuno | It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. | 114 |
| Tim Howard | My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures. | 114 |
| William Law | Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. | 114 |
| David Brainerd | We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. | 114 |
| Emraan Hashmi | My faith in God is unshakeable, even though till date, I have not experienced any miraculous incident that makes me feel the presence of a higher power. But the trust in God has been engrained into my psyche since my childhood. | 114 |
| Jonathan Sacks | In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. | 114 |
| Michele Bachmann | Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. | 114 |
| Blaise Pascal | Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. | 115 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. | 115 |
| Martin Luther | Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. | 115 |
| Joel Osteen | I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled. | 115 |
| Barbara Bush | Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. | 115 |
| Charles Lindbergh | Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? | 115 |
| Denzel Washington | I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith. | 115 |
| Garth Brooks | Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. | 115 |
| George Muller | Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of trial, and thus the food of faith, the means whereby our faith may be increased, is lost. | 115 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. | 115 |
| Russell Wilson | My faith is so strong that I believe that God made me 5-11 for a reason. For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it, or all the kids that will be told no. | 115 |
| Tony Blair | My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. | 115 |
| Tony Campolo | Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith. | 115 |
| Anne Graham Lotz | My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship. | 115 |
| Bruce Barton | The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. | 115 |
| Tryon Edwards | Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. | 115 |
| Whittaker Chambers | Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. | 115 |
| Max Heindel | Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ. | 115 |
| Victoria Osteen | Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work. | 116 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. | 116 |
| Eric Ries | The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure. | 116 |
| Glenn Beck | Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin. | 116 |
| Henry B. Eyring | It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel. | 116 |
| Max Lucado | My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. | 116 |
| Meryl Streep | All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. | 116 |
| Paul Simon | Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. | 116 |
| Sharon Salzberg | I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all. | 116 |
| Tim Tebow | I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve. | 116 |
| Tyler Perry | My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now. | 116 |
| William Ellery Channing | Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. | 116 |
| Gary Hamel | It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests. | 116 |
| John Piper | When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. | 116 |
| John Boyle O'Reilly | Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls. | 116 |
| Khalil Gibran | Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. | 117 |
| Leonard Cohen | Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. | 117 |
| Victoria Osteen | There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith. | 117 |
| Ben Carson | I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way. | 117 |
| Ellen G. White | The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. | 117 |
| Fidel Castro | I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. | 117 |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. | 117 |
| Joseph Conrad | Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. | 117 |
| Karen Armstrong | Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. | 117 |
| Louis L'Amour | To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. | 117 |
| Reza Aslan | I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief. | 117 |
| Thomas Huxley | The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. | 117 |
| William Ralph Inge | True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. | 117 |
| Damian Marley | I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack. | 117 |
| Charles Spurgeon | If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith. | 118 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. | 118 |
| Franz Liszt | I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood. | 118 |
| Giacomo Casanova | For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent. | 118 |
| Paul Tillich | Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. | 118 |
| Peter Ustinov | Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. | 118 |
| Philip Johnson | Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice. | 118 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion. | 118 |
| Richard Rohr | Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens. | 118 |
| Robert Reich | The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. | 118 |
| Thomas S. Monson | Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. | 118 |
| Tim Tebow | My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need. | 118 |
| J. C. Watts | Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school. | 118 |
| James Lovelock | I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith. | 118 |
| Jeremy Lin | When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life. | 118 |
| Jon Meacham | Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. | 118 |
| John Wycliffe | It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better. | 118 |
| Pope John Paul II | Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. | 119 |
| Thomas Aquinas | Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. | 119 |
| Vladimir Putin | I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul. | 119 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. | 119 |
| Abu Bakr | There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. | 119 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. | 119 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future. | 119 |
| Corazon Aquino | I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way. | 119 |
| Grover Norquist | Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. | 119 |
| Mitt Romney | Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. | 119 |
| Paul Davies | We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws. | 119 |
| T. D. Jakes | Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. | 119 |
| Ayn Rand | God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. | 120 |
| Dan Quayle | The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? | 120 |
| Joseph Campbell | I don't have to have faith, I have experience. | 120 |
| William James | It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. | 120 |
| Victoria Osteen | You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth. | 120 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. | 120 |
| Brene Brown | Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.' | 120 |
| Charles Stanley | The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices. | 120 |
| David A. Bednar | Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed. | 120 |
| Emile Durkheim | Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. | 120 |
| Flannery O'Connor | Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. | 120 |
| Francis Chan | For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them. | 120 |
| George Sand | Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. | 120 |
| Greg Graffin | In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children. | 120 |
| Nancy Gibbs | The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. | 120 |
| Pete Townshend | In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. | 120 |
| Woody Harrelson | I have a strong spiritual life. I can't say that I have faith that Jesus is my Savior, but I look at Jesus in the same way that I look at, you know, Mohammed. He was giving everyone the goods. So was Gandhi. | 120 |
| Wynton Marsalis | When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? | 120 |
| James Dobson | Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be times in every person's life when circumstances don't add up - when God doesn't appear to make sense. This aspect of the Christian faith is not well advertised. | 120 |
| John Ortberg | At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. | 120 |
| Alan Watts | But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. | 121 |
| Richard Dawkins | Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. | 121 |
| Charles R. Swindoll | We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely. | 121 |
| Joyce Meyer | We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith. | 121 |
| Bernie Siegel | Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy. | 121 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level. | 121 |
| Denis Diderot | Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. | 121 |
| E. B. White | Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. | 121 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. | 121 |
| Joe Rogan | Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven. | 121 |
| Tim Tebow | Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it. | 121 |
| Muhammad Ali | It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. | 122 |
| Alan Watts | Faith is a state of openness or trust. | 122 |
| Anne Frank | He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! | 122 |
| Blaise Pascal | It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. | 122 |
| Leo Tolstoy | Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. | 122 |
| Swami Vivekananda | If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. | 122 |
| Virat Kohli | I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend. | 122 |
| Anton Chekhov | No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. | 122 |
| Joyce Meyer | I've learned through my own relationship with God that He's not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart. | 122 |
| Charles Stanley | He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you. | 122 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. | 122 |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. | 122 |
| Yehuda Berg | 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands. | 122 |
| Plato | We are twice armed if we fight with faith. | 123 |
| Pope Francis | In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord. | 123 |
| Henry Miller | Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. | 123 |
| Rick Perry | What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. | 123 |
| Rose Kennedy | I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith. | 123 |
| William Penn | Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. | 123 |
| Barack Obama | My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. | 124 |
| Alan Watts | In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. | 124 |
| Elie Wiesel | No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. | 124 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | A man of courage is also full of faith. | 124 |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman. | 124 |
| Henry B. Eyring | We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And He would make it possible for us to pass the test of life if we exercised faith in Him by being obedient. | 124 |
| Lech Walesa | You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love? | 124 |
| Louisa May Alcott | Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. | 124 |
| Miguel de Unamuno | Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. | 124 |
| Paul Tillich | Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. | 124 |
| Paul Watson | I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. | 124 |
| Troy Polamalu | A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you. | 124 |
| Randeep Hooda | Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side. | 124 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. | 125 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. | 125 |
| Douglas MacArthur | A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. | 125 |
| Bear Grylls | And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across. | 125 |
| Joel Osteen | Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. | 125 |
| Ellen G. White | When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music. | 125 |
| Henry B. Eyring | The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance. | 125 |
| Norman Cousins | My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. | 125 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. | 125 |
| Sophia Loren | Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. | 125 |
| Julia Cameron | I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. | 125 |
| Bear Grylls | Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home. | 126 |
| Henry B. Eyring | Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us. | 126 |
| Jennifer Lopez | I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that. | 126 |
| John Donne | Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. | 126 |
| Mikhail Bakunin | But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. | 126 |
| Mortimer Adler | One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. | 126 |
| Steve Jobs | Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. | 201 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. | 201 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. | 201 |
| Jimmy Carter | I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. | 201 |
| John D. Rockefeller | We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter. | 201 |
| Erich Fromm | Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. | 201 |
| Kirk Cameron | Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day. | 201 |
| Rafael Nadal | I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me. | 201 |
| Robert Browning | Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. | 201 |
| Thomas S. Monson | The future is as bright as your faith. | 201 |
| Troy Polamalu | I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong. | 201 |
| Tullian Tchividjian | The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom. | 201 |
| Julia Cameron | Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act. | 201 |
| Barack Obama | My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. | 202 |
| Anton Chekhov | Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. | 202 |
| Ravi Zacharias | I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion? | 202 |
| David A. Bednar | True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action. | 202 |
| George H. W. Bush | You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. | 202 |
| Vin Diesel | My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film. | 202 |
| Richard Dawkins | Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results. | 203 |
| Saint Teresa of Avila | What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good? | 203 |
| W. H. Auden | In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. | 203 |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | Society lives by faith, and develops by science. | 203 |
| Henry B. Eyring | With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain. | 203 |
| T. D. Jakes | I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background. | 203 |
| Thomas S. Monson | Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. | 203 |
| Michael Franti | Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things. | 203 |
| Edward Snowden | There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. | 204 |
| Jimmy Carter | In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. | 204 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. | 204 |
| James E. Faust | Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority. | 204 |
| James Russell Lowell | 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. | 204 |
| Regina Brett | We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith. | 204 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. | 204 |
| Khalil Gibran | Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. | 205 |
| William Shakespeare | The love of heaven makes one heavenly. | 205 |
| Charles Spurgeon | Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. | 205 |
| John Wooden | There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. | 205 |
| Michelangelo | Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. | 205 |
| Henry B. Eyring | The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life. | 205 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith. | 205 |
| Thomas Paine | He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. | 206 |
| Joyce Meyer | Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed! | 206 |
| William Wordsworth | Faith is a passionate intuition. | 206 |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. | 206 |
| John Updike | I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life. | 206 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. | 206 |
| Thomas S. Monson | We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm. | 206 |
| Tariq Ramadan | Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens. | 206 |
| John Piper | God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute. | 206 |
| Thomas A. Edison | Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! | 207 |
| Ashton Kutcher | In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product. | 207 |
| Charles Stanley | Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God. | 207 |
| Henry B. Eyring | Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety. | 207 |
| James E. Faust | In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. | 207 |
| Harry S Truman | I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. | 208 |
| Martin Luther | If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. | 208 |
| Joel Osteen | Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. | 208 |
| Edwin Louis Cole | Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God. | 208 |
| Henry B. Eyring | God offers us counsel not just for our own safety, but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few comforts so sweet as to know that we have been an instrument in the hands of God in leading someone else to safety. That blessing generally requires the faith to follow counsel when it is hard to do. | 208 |
| James E. Faust | Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. | 208 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. | 209 |
| Martin Luther | Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are? | 209 |
| William James | There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. | 209 |
| Joel Osteen | Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.' | 209 |
| Tim Tebow | It's attractive when girls have faith. That is a big thing for me. | 209 |
| Blaise Pascal | In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. | 210 |
| William James | Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. | 210 |
| Joel Osteen | God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. | 210 |
| Herman Hesse | To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. | 210 |
| Sam Harris | Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith. | 210 |
| Ted Cruz | I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. | 210 |
| H. L. Mencken | Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. | 211 |
| Blaise Pascal | Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. | 211 |
| Christopher Hitchens | Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. | 211 |
| Isaac Newton | Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths. | 211 |
| Pope Francis | Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action. | 211 |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. | 211 |
| David A. Bednar | Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward. | 211 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood. | 211 |
| Muhammad Iqbal | If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. | 211 |
| Ted Cruz | I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility. | 211 |
| Alan Watts | And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. | 212 |
| Martin Luther | Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. | 212 |
| Billy Graham | Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. | 213 |
| Joel Osteen | I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith. | 213 |
| James E. Faust | A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. | 213 |
| Marco Rubio | I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs, but to teach my faith to my children and to share it with anyone who will listen - that is my right, too. | 213 |
| Martin Luther | Pray, and let God worry. | 214 |
| Thomas Aquinas | The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. | 214 |
| Vince Lombardi | It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner. | 214 |
| William James | Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! | 215 |
| Joel Osteen | Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions. | 215 |
| Kyle Chandler | I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors. | 215 |
| C. S. Lewis | Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. | 216 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. | 216 |
| Soren Kierkegaard | Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. | 216 |
| Marianne Williamson | Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them. | 216 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | God enters by a private door into every individual. | 217 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. | 217 |
| Sam Harris | It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. | 217 |
| Charles Spurgeon | Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace. | 218 |
| Ellen G. White | Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith. | 218 |
| Samuel Butler | What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. | 219 |
| Bear Grylls | Faith is personal if it's to be real. | 220 |
| James E. Faust | Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future. | 220 |
| T. S. Eliot | For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. | 221 |
| Albert Schweitzer | Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. | 221 |
| Ronald Reagan | We are never defeated unless we give up on God. | 223 |
| Voltaire | Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. | 223 |
| Bruce Springsteen | Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. | 223 |
| Annie Besant | I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal. | 223 |
| Penn Jillette | Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure. | 223 |
| C. S. Lewis | Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. | 224 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Faith: not wanting to know what is true. | 224 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Base souls have no faith in great individuals. | 224 |
| Paulo Coelho | The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. | 224 |
| Bear Grylls | My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death. | 224 |
| James E. Faust | I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism. | 224 |
| Seth Shostak | Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages. | 224 |
| Steve Jobs | It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. | 225 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule. | 225 |
| Joel Osteen | God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you. | 225 |
| Ellen G. White | The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine. | 225 |
| Khalil Gibran | Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. | 226 |
| Elie Wiesel | I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. | 226 |
| Martin Luther | Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. | 226 |
| W. H. Auden | May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? | 226 |
| James E. Faust | Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened. | 226 |
| Robert H. Schuller | A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love. | 226 |
| Christopher Hitchens | To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. | 301 |
| George W. Bush | Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation. | 301 |
| Martin Luther | Reason is the enemy of faith. | 301 |
| Eric Hoffer | Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. | 301 |
| Henry B. Eyring | No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now. | 301 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. | 302 |
| Ronald Reagan | Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith. | 303 |
| Henry B. Eyring | If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing. In all conditions, we can choose the right with the guidance of the Spirit. We have the gospel of Jesus Christ to shape and guide our lives if we choose it. | 303 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope. | 303 |
| Albert Einstein | That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. | 304 |
| C. S. Lewis | I gave in, and admitted that God was God. | 304 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. | 304 |
| Thomas Aquinas | Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. | 304 |
| Michel de Montaigne | How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. | 304 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life. | 304 |
| Robert H. Schuller | I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word. | 304 |
| Elie Wiesel | I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. | 305 |
| Dave Grohl | No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold. | 305 |
| Dalai Lama | If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. | 306 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. | 306 |
| Anne Lamott | The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. | 306 |
| Henry B. Eyring | We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts. | 306 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Non-violence is the article of faith. | 307 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. | 307 |
| Henry B. Eyring | The Holy Ghost has as a major purpose witnessing that Jesus is the Christ. As we plead for help in His service, the Holy Ghost will come and confirm our faith in Him. Our faith in the Savior will increase. And, as we continue to serve Him, we will come to love Him. | 307 |
| James E. Faust | For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored. | 307 |
| Pope Francis | Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. | 308 |
| Ben Carson | Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith. | 308 |
| Voltaire | To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. | 309 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. | 309 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn. | 309 |
| Thomas Carlyle | Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. | 309 |
| James E. Faust | To those who believe but wish their belief to be strengthened, I urge you to walk in faith and trust in God. Spiritual knowledge always requires an exercise of faith. | 310 |
| Joyce Meyer | No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today! | 311 |
| Marco Rubio | In America you have the right to worship any way you choose. That's why virtually every faith and every denomination on Earth has a presence in our land. You have a right to not believe in God at all. | 311 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. | 313 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Faith is spiritualized imagination. | 313 |
| Joyce Meyer | When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem. | 313 |
| Eric Hoffer | To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. | 313 |
| Eric Hoffer | Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. | 314 |
| Ben Carson | Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare. | 315 |
| Joel Osteen | The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith. | 315 |
| Mason Cooley | Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. | 315 |
| H. L. Mencken | Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. | 316 |
| Deepak Chopra | Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. | 316 |
| Wayne Dyer | Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt. | 316 |
| Ben Carson | The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to. | 316 |
| George W. Bush | Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do. | 317 |
| George Eliot | We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. | 318 |
| Joel Osteen | You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about. | 318 |
| Pope Francis | Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. | 319 |
| James E. Faust | To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept. | 319 |
| Joyce Meyer | The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually. | 321 |
| Elbert Hubbard | Fear clogs; faith liberates. | 322 |
| Joel Osteen | It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test. | 322 |
| Richard Dawkins | If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. | 323 |
| Elbert Hubbard | Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. | 323 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues. | 323 |
| Mason Cooley | Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. | 325 |
| Benjamin Franklin | To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. | 326 |
| Khalil Gibran | Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. | 326 |
| Bill Cosby | If you have no faith, you've lost your battle. | 402 |
| Richard Dawkins | The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. | 404 |
| Joyce Meyer | If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go. | 404 |
| E. M. Forster | Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. | 404 |
| Dalai Lama | My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium. | 405 |
| Dalai Lama | If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. | 406 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. | 406 |
| Deepak Chopra | I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people. | 406 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. | 407 |
| Blaise Pascal | We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. | 407 |
| Billy Graham | I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe. | 410 |
| Richard Dawkins | If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment. | 411 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. | 411 |
| William Shakespeare | Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. | 413 |
| Blaise Pascal | Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. | 415 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness. | 416 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless. | 416 |
| Steve Jobs | It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people. | 417 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. | 418 |
| Joel Osteen | I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe. | 424 |
| Albert Camus | To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. | 501 |
| William Shakespeare | Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. | 503 |
| Mason Cooley | Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. | 505 |
| Henry David Thoreau | The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. | 513 |
| Barack Obama | What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time. | 514 |
| Pope Francis | First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience. | 514 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. | 601 |
| Richard Dawkins | In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that. | 601 |
| Joyce Meyer | Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word. | 601 |
| Victor Hugo | Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. | 603 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. | 604 |
| Victor Hugo | A library implies an act of faith. | 608 |
| Joyce Meyer | Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul. | 608 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. | 612 |
| Joel Osteen | Faith is easy; I think people complicate it. | 613 |
| Albert Einstein | God always takes the simplest way. | 615 |
| Joel Osteen | Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside. | 619 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. | 621 |
| Taylor Swift | I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief. | 624 |
| Victor Hugo | A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. | 702 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Each one prays to God according to his own light. | 709 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. | 714 |
| Benjamin Franklin | The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. | 718 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. | 724 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. | 801 |
| Benjamin Franklin | In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. | 802 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. | 804 |
| Henry David Thoreau | Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. | 805 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. | 808 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith. | 821 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The faith that stands on authority is not faith. | 901 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. | 920 |
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