Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
I haven’t lost faith in human nature and I haven’t decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
Don’t be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.
People have to realize that just because you’re a Christian, it doesn’t mean that you’re perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.
Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us – that a man’s enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve.
I don’t know if there’s only one God, I don’t know if there’s a God, I just have a faith that there is. That’s what I’ve grown up with.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.
I used to say to my late wife, ‘I have great faith in the American people.’
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen… Their faith is their passport.
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.
Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.
There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
My faith is in God. If it’s a little statue of Buddha or whatever works for you, brilliant.
Faith never makes a confession.
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.
My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
The evangelical Christian faith I’d grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.
I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn’t been for Mother’s faith and support.
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.
Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
I’m not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change – not somebody else.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Pray in faith.
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
