Faith Quotes

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.

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.

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

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

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.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I had lost faith in biography.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

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.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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.

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?

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.

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.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

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.

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.