It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
~By Ed Miliband ~
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
~By Alan Watts ~
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
~By Frank Pittman ~
It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
~By Leslie Banks ~
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
~By Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
Bring the army of the faithful through.
~By George Meredith ~
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
~By Simone Weil ~
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
~By Saint Bernard ~
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
~By Alan Watts ~
Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
~By Jean Racine ~
And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
~By Alfre Woodard ~
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
~By George H. W. Bush ~
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
~By Mary Manin Morrissey ~
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
~By Frances Wright ~
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
~By Robert Menendez ~
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
~By Dorothy Day ~
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
~By Charlotte Bunch ~
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
~By John Calvin ~
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
~By Ron Chernow ~
My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
~By Vin Diesel ~
All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
~By Maria Monk ~
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
~By John Piper ~
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
~By Dirk Kempthorne ~
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
~By Sharron Angle ~
I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
~By Bruce Barton ~
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
~By Hesiod ~
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
~By Martin Luther ~
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
~By Alejo Carpentier ~
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
~By Michael Enzi ~
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
~By Martin Luther ~
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
~By Edward Forbes ~
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~By May Sarton ~
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
~By Orson Pratt ~
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
~By William Hazlitt ~
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
~By Chubby Checker ~
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
~By W. H. Auden ~
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
~By Wayne Newton ~
If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
~By George Carey ~
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
~By Freya Stark ~
Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
~By Yannick Noah ~
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
~By William Griffith Wilson ~
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
~By William Gurnall ~
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
~By Faith Evans ~
I have great faith in the jury system.
~By Judge Mills Lane ~
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
~By Michael Malone ~
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.
~By Lusia Strus ~
Faith is reason grown courageous.
~By Sherwood Eddy ~
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
~By Dean Inge ~
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
~By Walter Martin ~
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
~By Simone Weil ~
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~By Albert Claude ~
We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
~By Peter Akinola ~
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
~By William Ames ~
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
~By Richard Linklater ~
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
~By Lorenzo Snow ~
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
~By Dean Inge ~
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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