Pete Townshend Quotes

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

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• I have faith in the jury system.

  

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• I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

  

  Dana Goodyear
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• God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

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• My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

  

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• Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• 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.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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• I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

  

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• We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.

  

  Sam Houston
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• I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

  

  Yann Martel
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• Peace is not just safety or lack of war, violence, conflict and contention. Peace comes from knowing that the Savior knows who we are, knows that we have faith in Him, love Him, and keep His commandments, even and especially amid life's devastating trials and tragedies.

  

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• We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So when we are in the mess, remember Jesus made it right. We got to hang on to that by faith.

  

  Jud Wilhite
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• As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
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• Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

  

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• In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Faith