Faith Quotes

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.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

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.

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.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.

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.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

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.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

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.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

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.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.