957 private quotes tagged faith

“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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“Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.” — Roberta Flack

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“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?” — Graham Greene

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“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.” — A. N. Wilson

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“People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.” — James Dyson

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“I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.” — Francois Hollande

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“What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.” — Aphra Behn

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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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“Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.” — Karen Armstrong

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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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“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 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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“That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.” — Dan Brown

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

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“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.” — Christopher Fry

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

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“Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.” — Billy Ray Cyrus

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“Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.” — Pat Summitt

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“It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.” — J. J. Abrams

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“Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.” — Thomas Becket

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“In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.” — Wentworth Miller

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“I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.” — Michael Chang

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“I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.” — Bear Grylls

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“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.” — Marquis de Sade

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