The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Faith is the black person’s federal reserve system.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man – and the dogma is the drama.
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have to set yourself to cultivate those.
Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there’s something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.
I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
I enjoy life so much I don’t want it to end, and dying does worry me. If you’ve got faith, you believe that you’re going to go to a magic land, but unfortunately, I don’t have faith.
True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.
At the end of the day, we should all be trying to spread love and positivity, and that’s what faith continues to do for me. It keeps me balanced.
I don’t pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I’m just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that’s about the extent of it. So I’m not easily offended when people struggle about where they’re at with their faith at all.
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
Faith in God’s revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
When you are not playing, you need to train harder. You need to keep faith. And when you come into the team, you have to do exactly what your team-mates are doing to help the team achieve something.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
I’m not a practice religion freak. I didn’t grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Keeping our priorities straight, our faith, our family, and values will keep us grounded.
The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.
Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I’m always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.
Faith and hard work have been my mirror.
The name ‘Seventh-day Adventist’ carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord’s quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God’s law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
There’s so many gifts from the faith to appreciate and it strikes people differently, but the one-ness of the Church wherever you are, Raleigh, San Diego, Alabama. Every place we were was home because the Catholic Church is the same everywhere.
I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time – no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.
I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.
Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.
I have great respect for the LDS church – their commitment to family and taking care of each other is exemplary. I just don’t believe the tenets of the faith that they believe.
If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing. In all conditions, we can choose the right with the guidance of the Spirit. We have the gospel of Jesus Christ to shape and guide our lives if we choose it.
I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?
Faith is a passionate intuition.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
I think ‘Charming Billy’ ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.
Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
Faith that it’s not always in your hands or things don’t always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.
My faith in God has been the rudder that has allowed me to soar above the fray and to stay grounded and to learn from my mistakes.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
