957 private quotes tagged faith

“I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.” — Dean Cain

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“Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.” — Nikki Haley

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“I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.” — Smokey Robinson

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“The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.” — Michael Crichton

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“I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.” — Peter Garrett

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“I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.” — Kenneth Lay

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“The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.” — Jeff Miller

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“In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.” — Georg Simmel

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“President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.” — Mark Udall

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“We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.” — Matthew Simpson

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“I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.” — Edward Burns

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“In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.” — John Doolittle

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“I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.” — Matthew Simpson

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“I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.” — Gordon Brown

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“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.” — Elihu Root

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“In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.” — Walter Lang

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“The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.” — Matthew Simpson

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“Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.” — George A. Smith

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“If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.” — Matthew Simpson

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“I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.” — Kate Atkinson

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“To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.” — Maggie Gallagher

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“At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.” — George Papandreou

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“I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.” — Hope Davis

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“To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.” — Tony Snow

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“The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.” — Charles Hodge

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