L. Whitney Clayton Quotes

Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

L. Whitney Clayton

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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.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Religion

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• I had lost faith in biography.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Lost
  • Biography

• 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
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Faith

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

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Night
  • Faith
  • Eyes

• 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
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Blind

• 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.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

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

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Value

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

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Find

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Small
  • Faith

• I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Faith
  • Better

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Feeling
  • Faith
  • Thoughts

• Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Trying
  • Space
  • Eyes

• I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Life

• I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.

  

  Elizabeth Heyert
  • Women
  • Career
  • Labels

• Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

  

  L. Whitney Clayton
  • Faith