957 private quotes tagged faith

“We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.” — Jodi Rell

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“Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.” — Peter Welch

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“Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.” — Jerry Reed

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“I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.” — Rafael Nadal

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“Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.” — Adam Schiff

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“More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.” — Jack Schwartz

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“All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.” — Dean Inge

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“Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.” — Dean Inge

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“I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.” — Mary Ann Mobley

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“Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.” — Tom Shadyac

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“I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.” — Jimmy Carr

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“That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.” — Lynn Abbey

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“I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.” — Martha Reeves

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“The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.” — Hal Borland

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“The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.” — Richard Eyre

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“What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.” — Nick Clooney

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“If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.” — Charles Hodge

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“I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.” — Sean Hannity

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“After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.” — Martha Gellhorn

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“How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.” — Gayle King

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“Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.” — William Gurnall

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“Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.” — Romain Rolland

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“Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.” — Dean Inge

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“Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.” — William Gurnall

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“The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.” — Herbert Croly

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