You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
~By Richard Russo ~
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
~By Jodi Rell ~
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
~By Chubby Checker ~
We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
~By Alvin Dark ~
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
~By Herman Melville ~
Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.
~By Rich Lowry ~
Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
~By Gael Garcia Bernal ~
We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.
~By Peter Akinola ~
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
~By Claude McKay ~
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
~By John Tesh ~
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
~By Denzel Washington ~
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
~By George Fox ~
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
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 ~
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
~By James Beattie ~
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
~By Voltaire ~
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
~By Gordon Brown ~
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
~By Sean Connery ~
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
~By Norodom Sihamoni ~
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
~By Andre Gide ~
All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
~By Bill Owens ~
The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.
~By Jim Dine ~
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
~By Francis Arinze ~
Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
~By Tony Snow ~
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
~By William Penn ~
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
~By William James ~
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 ~
At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
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 ~
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
~By Meryl Streep ~
I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
~By Patsy Cline ~
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
~By Richard Barnfield ~
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
~By George Stigler ~
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
~By Elia Kazan ~
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~By Lucille Ball ~
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
~By Barack Obama ~
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.
~By Brooks Robinson ~
Faith is never identical with piety.
~By Karl Barth ~
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
~By David Sarnoff ~
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
~By G. I. Gurdjieff ~
Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.
~By Sydney Carter ~
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
~By Loretta Young ~
I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.
~By Marion Ross ~
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
~By David Brainerd ~
Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
~By Mary Richards ~
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 ~
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
~By Arthur Symons ~
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 you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
~By Ramakrishna ~
The principle part of faith is patience.
~By George MacDonald ~
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
~By George A. Smith ~
Bring the army of the faithful through.
~By George Meredith ~
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
~By Francis Wright ~
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
~By William P. Leahy ~
You just have to have a simple faith.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
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 ~
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
~By Charles Henry Parkhurst ~
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
~By Jesse Helms ~
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.
~By Leverett Saltonstall ~
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
~By Pierre Loti ~
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
~By William P. Leahy ~
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 ~
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
~By William Ames ~
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
~By Adam Schiff ~
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 ~
The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
~By Dan Brown ~
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
~By Molly Parker ~
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