faith
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘faith’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.” -Saint Bernard
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“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.” -James Hal Cone
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“Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.” -David E. Price
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“The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.” -Dorothy Thompson
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“I believe that today’s players who are Christians feel that it’s important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.” -Lynn Swann
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“Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.” -Michael Ramsey
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“Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.” -Walter Rauschenbusch
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“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.” -Julia Sweeney
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“God’s got something for me. I have faith it’ll be OK.” -Chubby Checker
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“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.” -George Seaton
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“My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.” -Joanna Southcott
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“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.” -John Lancaster Spalding
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“Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.” -Sheila Jackson Lee
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“Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.” -Elizabeth Goudge
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“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.” -David Knopfler
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“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India… has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.” -Ignatius Loyola
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“And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.” -Owen Glendower
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“I’m an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.” -Joanna Trollope
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“I’ve always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.” -Wayne Newton
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“Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.” -Sherwood Eddy
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“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!” -Robert Ley
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“Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people… No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.” -Thomas Becket
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“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
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“I’ve been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.” -Ioan Gruffudd
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“The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.” -John Lewis
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“I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else… and I will pray for you.” -Gloria Gaynor
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“Bush’s faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.” -Rich Lowry
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“I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don’t apologize for that, and I don’t think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.” -John Thune
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“Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.” -Blanche Lincoln
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“There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.” -Lawrence…
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“Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.” -George A. Smith
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“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
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“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
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“Greece’s European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece’s free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.” -Douglas Wilder
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“When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard you’re watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.” -Callie…
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“Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.” -Peter Conrad
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“It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can’t do it and I won’t do it.” -Joey Skaggs
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“Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.” -Walter Kaufmann
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“The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.” -Mark Hatfield
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“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.” -Don King
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“A few years ago you couldn’t go from TV to film. It was like a ‘no no’ but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there’s not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you’re…
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“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.” -Simon Hoggart
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“But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what’s going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.” -Joseph Jarman
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“Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.” -Francis Wright
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“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.” -Scott Stapp
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“I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.” -Horst Koehler
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“I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.” -David Sarnoff
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“There will be trying times during Obama’s presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.” -Bill Kristol
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“The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.” -Michael Polanyi
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“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
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“Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.” -Alcee Hastings
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“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
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“Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.” -Alejo Carpentier
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“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.” -John Bacon
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“My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.” -Rob Bell
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“I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.” -Jesse Helms
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“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.” -Robert Cecil
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“I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.” -Adam Rickitt
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“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.” -James Marsters
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“There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don’t think are good Muslims, and going on to include…
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“Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people’s strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?” -Pratibha Patil
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“When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it’s a leap of faith that I didn’t want to make initially –…
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“Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.” -Sydney Carter
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“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?” -Natalie Cole
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“The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.” -Abraham Cahan
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“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
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“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.” -Stephen Collins
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“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.” -Bill Shuster
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“While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?” -Julia Ward Howe
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“It’s really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I’m not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it’s important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do…
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“The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.” -Abu Bakar Bashir
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“At issue was the question whether this man’s faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.” -Whittaker Chambers
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“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
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“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.” -Daniel Berrigan
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“I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.” -John Hawley
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“For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.” -Rupert Sheldrake
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“Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.” -Richard Linklater
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“Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God’s truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.” -Gene Robinson
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“Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.” -Laurel Lee
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“We are the meeting place, an entity that’s trying to connect faith and culture.” -William P. Leahy
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“I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.” -Leverett Saltonstall
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“Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.” -Alberta Hunter
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“I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.” -Marvin Hamlisch
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“So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, ‘Where is faith being put into action here?’” -Jim Wallis
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“In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.” -Kenneth Scott Latourette
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“Faith is the heroism of the intellect.” -Charles Henry Parkhurst
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“For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.” -Richard Morris
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“The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.” -John Cornyn
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“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.” -Andrew Denton
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“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.” -Freya Stark
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“The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.” -Chelsea Clinton
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“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 .” -Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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“Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.” -Emily Greene Balch
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“After ‘Four Feathers,’ I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn’t like how the business was.” -Wes Bentley
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“I don’t worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.” -Martha Reeves
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“Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our…
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“I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.” -Jan Karon
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“Why should any man have power over any other man’s faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?” -George Fox
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“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.” -Steve Buyer
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“I’m a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven’t learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that…
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“Faith is the substance of hope – of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person…
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“I’m not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.” -Daniel Libeskind
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“I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.” -Wilfrid Laurier
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“I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.” -Rowan Williams
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“I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.” -Patricia Ireland
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“I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn’t been for Mother’s faith and support.” -Patsy Cline
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“With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.” -Jerry Costello
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“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.” -George Carey
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“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.” -Maria Monk
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“Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.” -Phillip E. Johnson
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“You can’t do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can’t put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.” -Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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“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.” -Dave Reichert
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“I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.” -Melanie Fiona
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“Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.” -Ken Hensley
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“The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.” -Francis Parker Yockey
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“I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.” -Cliff Stearns
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“Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.” -Sally Kirkland
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“I’ve always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.” -Bob Brown
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“I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.” -Rick Moody
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“American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.” -Ginny Brown-Waite
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“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.” -Peter Welch
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“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
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“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.” -Mary Ann Mobley
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“After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.” -Martha Gellhorn
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“Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you’re gonna need it.” -Jerry Reed
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“We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens’ faith. We must be trusted to always place the public’s good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.” -Jodi Rell
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“Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.” -Romain Rolland
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“Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.” -William Gurnall
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“Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.” -Frank Gaffney
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“My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.” -John H. Johnson
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“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.” -Herbert Croly
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“The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.” -Hal Borland
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“All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.” -Dean Inge
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“The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.” -Michael Crichton
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“Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.” -Tom Shadyac
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“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.” -Adam Schiff
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“That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.” -Lynn Abbey
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“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.” -Nick Clooney
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“If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.” -Charles Hodge
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“I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.” -Rafael Nadal
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“I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.” -Sean Hannity
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“How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he’s a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.” -Gayle King
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“The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.” -Richard Eyre
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“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.” -Jack Schwartz
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“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.” -Tony Snow
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“Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.” -Paul…
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“I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I’m just trying to do the right thing.” -Tracey Gold
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“I haven’t chosen to make an issue of faith.” -Peter Garrett
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“The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It’s in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.” -Jeff Miller
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“I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.” -Timothy Radcliffe
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“If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.” -Matthew Simpson
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“I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.” -Kenneth Lay
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“I’m a lapsed Quaker. I don’t go to meetings any more. But I’m very drawn to Catholicism – all that glitter. I’d love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic – faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction – all these wonderful words. I don’t think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn’t…
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“At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.” -George Papandreou
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“You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.” -Robert Vaughn
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“I’ve been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.” -Smokey Robinson
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“President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people’s faith in the presidency and in government.” -Mark Udall
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“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.” -Edward Burns
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“My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.” -Samuel Rutherford
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“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
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“I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what’s new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.” -Gordon Brown
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“Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.” -Dinesh D’Souza
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“I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?” -Valerie Bertinelli
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“I don’t think it’s any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and ‘manned up’ in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I’m not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.” -Jimmy Carr
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“To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.” -Maggie Gallagher
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“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.” -David Brainerd
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“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.” -Marie de France
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“I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.” -Michelle Shocked
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“No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.” -Tony Visconti
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“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
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“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.” -Ricky Martin
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“My faith always has been and always will be important to me.” -Aretha Franklin
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“I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn’t mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.” -Ed Gillespie
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“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.” -Felix Adler
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“I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that’ll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they’re at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, ‘Oh, my God, you’re at the top.’ Something interesting will come. It always…
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“We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.” -Ryan White
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