957 private quotes tagged faith

“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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“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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“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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“He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.” — Abu Bakr

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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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“Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.” — Benjamin Carson

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“Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.” — Oliver Cromwell

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“Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.” — Heinrich Heine

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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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“From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.” — William Ames

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“Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.” — J. C. Watts

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“Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.” — Benjamin Carson

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“I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.” — J. C. Watts

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“Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.” — Tony Campolo

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

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“But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.” — Mikhail Bakunin

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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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“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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“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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“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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“I had lost faith in biography.” — A. N. Wilson

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“It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.” — Jon Meacham

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“As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.” — Jon Meacham

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“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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