Gerolamo Cardano Quotes

I have not lost my faith; and this I must attribute more to a miracle than to my own wisdom; more to Divine Providence than to my own virtue. Steadfastly, in fact from my earliest childhood, I have made this my prayer, "Lord God... grant me long life, and wisdom, and health of mind and body."

Gerolamo Cardano

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• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

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

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• I have faith in my imperfections!

  

  Dana Delany
  • Faith
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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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  • Identity
  • Young

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Faith
  • Stars
  • Generation

• God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Faith
  • Exercise

• Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Confident

• Silence brings us new namesnew feelings and new knowledge.Dreams dress us carefullyin the colors of power and faith.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Wisdom

• No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Faith
  • Religious

• There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fewer joys are as sweet - but authors have families to support and rent to pay, and for them, I hope for acclaim in their time rather than late-in-life or posthumously.

  

  Bill Clegg
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• Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

  

  James Newman
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• Texas governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print jacket against what she sees as the unfair treatment of her husband. She tearfully said that he has been 'brutalized' for his faith.

  

  Patti Davis
  • She
  • Faith
  • Wife

• To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Faith

• Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Song
  • Faith

• People have already dirtied my name too much.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • People

• When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Author

• Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a sign;But to the tireless toiler toward the goal,Shall the great miracles of God be knownAnd life revealed, immortal and divine.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• I have not lost my faith; and this I must attribute more to a miracle than to my own wisdom; more to Divine Providence than to my own virtue. Steadfastly, in fact from my earliest childhood, I have made this my prayer, "Lord God... grant me long life, and wisdom, and health of mind and body."

  

  Gerolamo Cardano
  • Faith
  • Wisdom
  • Virtue