Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.
~By Ashley Judd ~
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.
~By Jeremiah Day ~
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
~By Christopher Fry ~
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.
~By Derek Luke ~
I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
~By Dan Quayle ~
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 ~
It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
~By Scott Stapp ~
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 ~
I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
~By Raquel Welch ~
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
~By Peter Jennings ~
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
~By Shaun Cassidy ~
For we walk in faith, not by sight.
~By Jesus Christ ~
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
~By Buddha ~
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
~By John L. Lewis ~
Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.
~By James Marsters ~
I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
~By Kenneth Lay ~
The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
~By Ignatius Loyola ~
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
~By Vannevar Bush ~
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Reason is the enemy of faith.
~By Martin Luther ~
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
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 ~
I have a lot of faith in people.
~By John Lithgow ~
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 ~
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
~By Dorothy Day ~
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 ~
More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
~By Steve Buyer ~
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
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 ~
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 ~
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world.
~By Morris Dees ~
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
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 ~
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
~By John Hawley ~
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
~By Stanley Baldwin ~
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
~By Claude McKay ~
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
~By Albert Pike ~
Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
~By Alberta Hunter ~
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
~By George Santayana ~
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
~By George Whitefield ~
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
A library implies an act of faith.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 ~
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 ~
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
~By Clayton Christensen ~
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
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 ~
Faith is reason grown courageous.
~By Sherwood Eddy ~
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
~By William Ames ~
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
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 ~
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
~By W. H. Auden ~
The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
~By Alexander Smith ~
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.
~By Brian Littrell ~
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
~By Susan Taylor ~
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
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 ~
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
~By James Bovard ~
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