Faith Quotes
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It isn’t at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation.
Edward Said
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You feel a lot of rage when someone dies. I have a lot of faith in nature, but it can be cruel.
Mark Rylance
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An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
Donald Cram
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From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.
Alejo Carpentier
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The social body that had been effectively threatened by the diffusion of a faith that bordered on anarchism, on a total lack of interest in worldly matters (administration, commerce, etc.), … reacted in self-defense and absorbed the foreign body, making it serve its own ends.
Jacques Ellul
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I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
Craig Thompson
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
Paul Watson
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I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.
Jesse Ball
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The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
Jeff Miller
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Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.
S. D Gordon
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If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.
Gerald Vann
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I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.
Alfonso Cuaron
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To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.
Emily Dickinson
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You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players.
Alan Pardew
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Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
Brooks Robinson
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In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
Linda Vester
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I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
Mark Burnett
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.
Connie Mack
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People of India deserve to be complimented for making the 2014 elections a referendum on the misrule of the Congress-led UPA and demonstrating their faith in a proven new leadership.
Piyush Goyal
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Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
Arthur E. Morgan
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Keep the faith; work hard: practice does make you perfect. Do what you can, and meet the right people to make it work.
Christine Flores
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I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men
Frederick Douglass