Without Quotes

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.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

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.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.