957 private quotes tagged faith

“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.” — Robert Burton

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“Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.” — Yann Martel

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“There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.” — Patrick Wilson

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“I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.” — Fantasia Barrino

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“When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.” — Abraham Kuyper

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“I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.” — Dave Reichert

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“We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.” — Paul Davies

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“Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.” — Robin Wright Penn

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“Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.” — Jerry B. Jenkins

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“Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.” — Matthew Simpson

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“It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.” — Kamisese Mara

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“No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.” — Tony Visconti

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“There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.” — M. Night Shyamalan

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“As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.” — David Brainerd

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“You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.” — Maurice Greene

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“Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.” — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.” — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“I have faith in the jury system.” — Nancy Grace

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“And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.” — Christopher Dawson

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“At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.” — Luke Ford

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“I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.” — Allyson Felix

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“There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.” — Marie de France

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“Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.” — William Ames

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“Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.” — Ricky Martin

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“In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.” — James L. Buckley

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