957 private quotes tagged faith

“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.” — G. I. Gurdjieff

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“I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.” — Emily Bronte

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“All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.” — Richard Barnfield

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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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“I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.” — Tori Amos

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“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

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“Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.” — Paul Tillich

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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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“No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.” — Desmond Morris

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“Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.” — Barbara Smith

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“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.” — E. M. Forster

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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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“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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“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.” — Whittaker Chambers

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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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“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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“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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“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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“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.” — Irving Babbitt

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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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“I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.” — Thomas S. Monson

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“Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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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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“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.” — Swami Vivekananda

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