Faith Quotes
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Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
John Sununu
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Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.
Bill Maher
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.
T. S. Eliot
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If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
Ben Jonson
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Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
Ursula Hegi
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The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.
J. I. Packer
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Harry Dresden: I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it.
Jim Butcher
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It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.
Jay Parini
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Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
Andrea Bocelli
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To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.
W. T. Purkiser
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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
Marianne Williamson
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You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.
Janet Jackson
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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
Upton Sinclair
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If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
Adoniram Judson
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Faith is the most wonderful gift of the God.
Adriano Celentano
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.
Barack Obama
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Faith is a powerful thing to have in your repertory. ... Certainly, I'd felt despair, sometimes so much that I thought it would be easier to die. But my family and my faith have sustained me until, when I least expected it, life picked me up again.
Debbie Reynolds
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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
Jonathan Sacks
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Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
James Lecesne
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Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.
Chogyam Trungpa