I have great faith in fools; self confidence my friends call it.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Non violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

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.

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

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

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

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

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

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Faith activates God Fear activates the Enemy.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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.

Love, hope, fear, faith these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

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

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

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.

The faith I was born into formed me.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

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.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

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?

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

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.

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

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.

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.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

The principle part of faith is patience.

To me faith means not worrying.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

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.

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.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

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.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

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.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

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.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Faith never makes a confession.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

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.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

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.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

I've always had great faith in people.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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.

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

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.

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.

All the world is made of faith and trust and pixie dust.

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.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.

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.

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States with its unrivaled power and prestige has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

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.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

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.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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.

While we often huddle in groups of like minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

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.

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.

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.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

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.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

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.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

Put by for a rainy day.

God makes Man, His first priority.But, Man makes God his last resort.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hand on the door latch they die outside.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble.

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

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

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.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

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

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

I try to act out of faith.

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.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

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.

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.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith any religion.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.

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.

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy ness of life.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

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.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

A lot of faith is placed upon the airline itself. The FAA has never and will never have enough resources to completely monitor the airlines.

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?

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.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

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.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

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.

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

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

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

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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!

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

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

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.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Faith is never identical with piety.

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.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

Faith means living with uncertainty feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

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.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

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.

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

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.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

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.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science.

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

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.

I think that for some people faith is good they have something to draw to.

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.

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.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep seated. It is a product of faith.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

The investigator should have a robust faith and yet not believe.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

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.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

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.

Non violence is the article of faith.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

God continues to work miracles in my life.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

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.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

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.

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.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

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.

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.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

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

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

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

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.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

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.

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.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

There is a very well defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.

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.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

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

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

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.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

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?

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.

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.

I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.

The principal part of faith is patience.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

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.

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.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self serving misuse of religious faith.

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.

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.

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.

Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

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.

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?

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

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.

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

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.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

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

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.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

Pray, and let God worry.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

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.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

Stay true to your faith what ever it may be,For it be the roots that grow your wings.

Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

I have great faith in the jury system.

Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

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.

I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long term trajectory.

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.

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.

Faith you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

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.

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.

A library implies an act of faith.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

God always takes the simplest way.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

Only faith is sufficient.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

I met the president when he was president elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith based initiative that would do something for poor people.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious based bigotry.

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.

Have faith in your own thoughts.

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.

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.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

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.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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.

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.

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

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.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

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.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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

I've lost my faith in science.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

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.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward to be bold to invest in our future.

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

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.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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.

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.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

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.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

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.

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.

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.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

I have a lot of faith in people.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

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.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

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

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.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

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.

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. Peter 3:15

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

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

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

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.

I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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.

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.

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

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 .

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.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child like trust in them.

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.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

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.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

When I worked at the White House in the mid 1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion and he will be frenzied.

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.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

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.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

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.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

Wal Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

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.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I know now Lord why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

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

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.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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

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.

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Mark 9:23

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.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

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

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

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.

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.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

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

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Some people dont understand the promises theyre making when they make them I said. Right of course. But you keep the promise anyway. Thats what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

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.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding place:I ask no other sunshine thanThe sunshine of his face;Content to let the world go by,To know no gain nor loss;My sinful self my only shame,My glory, all the cross.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

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.

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

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.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

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.

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.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

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.

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.

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.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

You just have to have a simple faith.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

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.

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.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special in a way.- Guy Pearce

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

The reason birds can fly and we cant is simply because they have perfect faith for to have faith is to have wings.

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.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

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.

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

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.