“Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.”
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“When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.”
“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”
“The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.”
“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.”
“A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.”
“The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.”
“By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.”
“I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.”
“Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.”
“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.”
“The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.”
“I don't need faith.”
“To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.”
“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.”
“It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.”
“He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.”
“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.”
“Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.”
“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.”