957 private quotes tagged faith

“After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.”— Wes Bentley

“The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .”— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

“Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?”— George Fox

“I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.”— Jan Karon

“All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.”— Bill Owens

“In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.”— Bill Owens

“I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.”— Wilfrid Laurier

“Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.”— Richard Linklater

“One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.”— Gene Robinson

“If faith is your motivation, share that.”— Tim Kaine

“For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.”— Rupert Sheldrake

“The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.”— Rupert Sheldrake

“Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.”— Laurel Lee

“Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.”— Gene Robinson

“Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.”— James Marsters

“Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.”— Alberta Hunter

“When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?”— Natalie Cole

“I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.”— William P. Leahy

“I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.”— Leverett Saltonstall

“My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.”— Rob Bell

“Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?”— Pratibha Patil

“The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.”— Abraham Cahan

“You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.”— Stephen Collins

“Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.”— Sydney Carter

“At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.”— Whittaker Chambers