957 private quotes tagged faith

“Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.” — Irving Babbitt

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“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.” — Anne Lamott

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“I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.” — Vivienne Westwood

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

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“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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“Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.” — Michael Shermer

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“The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.” — Irving Babbitt

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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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“He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.” — Abu Bakr

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“The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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“Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.” — Benjamin Carson

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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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“Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.” — Heinrich Heine

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“Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.” — Tony Campolo

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“From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.” — William Ames

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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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“Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.” — Benjamin Carson

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“I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.” — J. C. Watts

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“Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.” — Tony Campolo

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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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“But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.” — Mikhail Bakunin

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“That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.” — Ryan Gosling

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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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