957 private quotes tagged faith

“The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.” — Jim Wallis

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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“I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.” — Henry Adams

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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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“It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.” — Tim Tebow

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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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“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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“Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.” — J. C. Watts

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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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“Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.” — 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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“The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.” — Brad Henry

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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 faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.” — Al Gore

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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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