957 private quotes tagged faith

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

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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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“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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“They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.” — Paul Tillich

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

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

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

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

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