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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Mark Burnett ~
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
~By John Clayton ~
The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
~By Jane Grey ~
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
~By Walter Scott ~
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
~By August Wilhelm von Schlegel ~
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
~By Andre Gide ~
When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.
~By Immanuel Velikovsky ~
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
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 ~
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.
~By Elizabeth Goudge ~
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
~By Mason Cooley ~
And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
~By Owen Glendower ~
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
~By Arthur E. Morgan ~
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
~By Greg Walden ~
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
A man is only as faithful as his options.
~By Chris Rock ~
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
~By Gordon B. Hinckley ~
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 ~
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
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 ~
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
~By John Boehner ~
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
~By Martin Luther ~
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
~By Ian Mcewan ~
Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.
~By Julie London ~
Faith never makes a confession.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
~By George Eliot ~
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.
~By Emma Thompson ~
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
~By Jacqueline Cochran ~
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
~By Saint Bernard ~
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 ~
You just have to have a simple faith.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
~By E. B. White ~
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 ~
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
~By Hal Borland ~
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
~By Gail Devers ~
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
~By John Doolittle ~
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
~By Loretta Young ~
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
~By Albert Bandura ~
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
~By Brad Henry ~
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
~By Charlotte Bunch ~
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
~By Alberta Hunter ~
I have great faith in the jury system.
~By Judge Mills Lane ~
For we walk in faith, not by sight.
~By Jesus Christ ~
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 ~
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
~By Michael Malone ~
To me faith means not worrying.
~By John Dewey ~
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
~By Helen Keller ~
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
~By Mark Udall ~
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
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.
~By Linda Vester ~
Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
~By David Viscott ~
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
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 ~
Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
~By Joe Bob Briggs ~
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
~By Phil Donahue ~
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
Have faith in your own thoughts.
~By Brooke Shields ~
My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
~By Olusegun Obasanjo ~
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
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 ~
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'
~By Jim Wallis ~
Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.
~By David E. Price ~
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
~By Tony Benn ~
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
~By Pat Robertson ~
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Faith is more basic than language or theology.
~By Sydney Carter ~
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
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