957 private quotes tagged faith

“A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.” — Conrad Black

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“I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.” — Charles Rangel

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“The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.” — Randall Terry

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“Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.” — Tryon Edwards

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“I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.” — Robin Gibb

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“Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.” — John Tesh

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“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.” — J. William Fulbright

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“Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.” — Adam Clarke

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“My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.” — Allyson Felix

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“I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.” — Jim Lehrer

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“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.” — Gregory Peck

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“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” — David Viscott

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“Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.” — Brad Henry

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“Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.” — Charles Henry Parkhurst

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“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” — Stephen Ambrose

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“Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.” — Kirstie Alley

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“As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.” — Thomas Browne

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“And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.” — Emanuel Swedenborg

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“Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.” — Dean Inge

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“I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.” — T. D. Jakes

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“My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.” — Samuel Rutherford

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“Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.” — Gary Bauer

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“Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.” — King Hussein I

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“To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.” — Thomas Browne

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“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.” — Barry Commoner

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