957 private quotes tagged faith

“Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.” — Barbara Bush

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“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.” — Thornton Wilder

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“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” — James Freeman Clarke

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“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.” — J. C. Watts

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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.” — Joseph Conrad

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“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office.” — Jimmy Carter

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“I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.” — Emily Bronte

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“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.” — William James

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“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.” — Hermann Hesse

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“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.” — Jon Meacham

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“In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.” — Jon Meacham

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“I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.” — Cliff Stearns

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“And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.” — Pat Robertson

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“Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.” — Andy Williams

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“I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.” — Stanley Baldwin

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“We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.” — Thomas S. Monson

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“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.” — Whittaker Chambers

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“Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.” — Julia Cameron

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“For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.” — David Cameron

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“It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.” — James Bovard

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“Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.” — Francis Beaumont

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