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- If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
- If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
- E. W. Howe on Faith
- If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
- Matthew Simpson on Faith
- 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.
- Matthew Simpson on Faith
- In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
- Ernst Fischer on Faith
- In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
- J. William Fulbright on Faith
- 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.
- Pearl S. Buck on Faith
- In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
- Jon Meacham on Faith
- In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.
- Mike McCurry on Faith
- In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
- Walter Lang on Faith
- In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Faith
- In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
- Blaise Pascal on Faith
- In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
- John Doolittle on Faith
- 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.
- Wentworth Miller on Faith
- 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.
- Alan Watts on Faith
- 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.
- G. I. Gurdjieff on Faith
- 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.
- Jimmy Carter on Faith
- In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
- Mark Foley on Faith
- In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
- Benjamin Franklin on Faith
- In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
- Juan Goytisolo on Faith
- In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
- Madeleine L'Engle on Faith
- In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
- James L. Buckley on Faith
- In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
- Georg Simmel on Faith
- 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.
- Emanuel Swedenborg on Faith
- In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
- Kenneth Scott Latourette on Faith
- In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
- Youssou N'Dour on Faith
- In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
- Jonathan Sacks on Faith
- 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.
- Nicolas Malebranche on Faith
- 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.
- Bill Owens on Faith
- 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.
- Juan Goytisolo on Faith
- Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
- J. C. Watts on Faith
- Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.
- Tom Lantos on Faith
- Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
- Thomas A Kempis on Faith
- Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Faith
- Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
- Jean Racine on Faith
- Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
- Charles Lindbergh on Faith
- Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
- John Calvin on Faith
- It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
- Jacqueline Cochran on Faith
- 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.
- Mary Richards on Faith
- 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.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Faith
- 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?
- Dwight L. Moody on Faith
- It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
- James Bovard on Faith
- It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
- Dorothy Day on Faith
- It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
- Kamisese Mara on Faith
- It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
- Bede Griffiths on Faith
- It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
- Jean Ingelow on Faith
- 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.
- William James on Faith
- It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
- Cat Stevens on Faith
- It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.
- Robin Roberts on Faith
- 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.
- Blaise Pascal on Faith
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