“After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.”
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“I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.”
“Faith is the heroism of the intellect.”
“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.”
“Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?”
“Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.”
“All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.”
“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.”
“It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.”
“I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.”
“Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If faith is your motivation, share that.”
“I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.”
“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.”
“I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.”
“We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.”
“The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.”