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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“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.” -Amy Grant
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“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
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“An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.” -Donald Cram
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“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.” -Jim Garrison
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“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.” -Marcia Wallace
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“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.” -Iain Duncan Smith
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“Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.” -William Graham Sumner
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“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.” -John Sununu
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“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.” -Mortimer Zuckerman
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“Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.” -Katey Sagal
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“I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.” -Edward Norton
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“Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.” -Paul Simon
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“I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.” -Bruce Springsteen
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“Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.” -J. C. Watts
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“After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of ‘Glee,’ a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of ‘spirit fingers’ to chase our cares and woes into somebody else’s backyard.” -James Wolcott
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“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.” -Henry Adams
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“Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.” -Grover Norquist
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“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.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don’t you use them in the search for love?” -Lech Walesa
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“I’m a scientist, not a theologian. I don’t know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.” -James Lovelock
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“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.” -Sean Connery
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“There are so many people that don’t believe in themselves and don’t have faith.” -Lenny Kravitz
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“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.” -Meryl Streep
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“As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play – and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.” -Eliot Spitzer
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“It’s a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.” -Julie Bowen
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“The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.” -Randy Neugebauer
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“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.” -Jon Meacham
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“The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.”…
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“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.” -Mortimer Adler
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“My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.” -Vin Diesel
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“Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.” -Heinrich Heine
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“Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.” -Robert Collier
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“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.” -Tony Blair
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“You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we’re all partially different – it’s no good imposing systems on people that it doesn’t suit.” -Damian Lewis
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“Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
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“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.” -Jean Rostand
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“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.” -Abu Bakr
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“The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.” -Irving Babbitt
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“The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.” -Alexander Smith
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“You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public’s faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.” -Ron Fournier
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“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.” -Tony Campolo
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“Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.” -Michael Shermer
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“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.” -Dee Dee Myers
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“Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.” -William Law
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“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.” -Ryan Gosling
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“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
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“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and…
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“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.” -Cyril Connolly
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“My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.” -David Ogden Stiers
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“‘Let God be true but every man a liar’ is the language of true faith.” -Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“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
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“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.” -Francis Quarles
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“But I don’t necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.” -Miley Cyrus
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“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.” -Peter Singer
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“Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.” -Lord Acton
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“Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.” -Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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“The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.” -Tony Benn
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“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.” -Sextus Propertius
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“I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.” -Lester B. Pearson
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“Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.” -Miguel de Unamuno
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“The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.” -Ellen G. White
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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.” -Joseph Conrad
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“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.” -Herman Melville
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“I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It’s my faith and my family, and then the business.” -Kathy Ireland
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“The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.” -Suzanne Fields
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“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.” -Mitch…
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“You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.” -Tertullian
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“Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice – that is the essence. And if it’s not the essence, then we’ve been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot – the content…
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“My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.” -Rick Wakeman
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“For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you’re not facing these things on your own.” -David Cameron
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“True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.” -William Ralph Inge
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“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.” -John Foster Dulles
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“We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.” -Paul Tillich
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“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.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“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.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“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.” -Pat Robertson
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“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.” -Andrea Dworkin
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“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“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?’” -Katy Perry
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“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?” -Dan Quayle
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“The principle part of faith is patience.” -George MacDonald
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“Obedience is the fruit of faith.” -Christina Rossetti
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“I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.” -Emily Bronte
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“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.” -Hermann Hesse
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“The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.” -Andy Williams
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“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.” -Roy L. Smith
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“I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.” -Stanley Baldwin
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“Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.” -Cat Stevens
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“Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.” -George Whitefield
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“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.” -Thornton Wilder
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“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.” -Lawrence Welk
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“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” -James Freeman Clarke
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“I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.” -Donald Cargill
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“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?” -W. H. Auden
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“I don’t know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.” -Tori Amos
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“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.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.” -Marquis de Sade
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“My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.” -Denzel Washington
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“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…
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“Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don’t only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.” -Jerry Saltz
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“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.” -Albert Claude
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“My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.” -Olusegun Obasanjo
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“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.” -Richard Roeper
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“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.” -Tony Dungy
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“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.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.” -Francis Beaumont
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“Our national motto is ‘In God we Trust,’ reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.” -Marco Rubio
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“They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.” -Jonathan Edwards
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“Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.” -Eric Hoffer
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“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.” -Josh Billings
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“The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“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.” -Rick Perry
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“The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.” -Clarence Darrow
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“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“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.” -Charles Stanley
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“An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.” -Simone Weil
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“Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.” -Peter Ustinov
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“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.” -Louisa May Alcott
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“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.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?” -John Calvin
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“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.” -George Sand
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“It’s very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.” -Quentin Tarantino
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“I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.” -Judy Collins
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“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.” -Frances Wright
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“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.” -Leonard Cohen
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“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?” -Charles Lindbergh
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“I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.” -Wilson Mizner
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“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.” -John L. Lewis
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“An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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“For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.” -E. O. Wilson
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“Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.” -George W. Bush
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“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.” -Gore Vidal
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“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.” -Flannery O’Connor
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“To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.” -Louis L’Amour
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“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.” -William Hazlitt
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“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.” -Elizabeth…
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“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” -E. B. White
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“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.” -George Santayana
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“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.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.” -Havelock Ellis
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“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“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.” -George H. W. Bush
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“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.” -E. M. Forster
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“Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.” -Mason Cooley
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“At least the fundamentalists haven’t tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“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.” -Albert Bandura
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“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
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“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.” -Alexander Pope
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“Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.” -Denis Diderot
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“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“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.” -Sophia Loren
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“There are many talented people who haven’t fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.” -James Cameron
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“The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.” -Alice Walker
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“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.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.” -Elizabeth I
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