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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
– Faith Evans
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
– Ben Stein
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Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
– Corazon Aquino
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Faith is important to me.
– Vera Farmiga
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Faith is never identical with piety.
– Karl Barth
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
– William Law
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
– George Seaton
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
– Oswald Chambers
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
– Paul Simon
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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
– George Sand
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
– Anton Chekhov
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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
– Dean Inge
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Faith is a state of openness or trust.
– Alan Watts
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
– Paul Tillich
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
– Khalil Gibran
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Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.
– Gene Robinson
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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.
– Blaise Pascal
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
– Karl Barth
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
– Taylor Swift
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.
– Mahalia Jackson
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Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
– Thomas S. Monson
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
– Lillian Smith
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Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
– Joel Osteen
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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.
– Dean Inge
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
– Benjamin Carson
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
– J. C. Watts
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
– Sally Kirkland
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
– Karen Armstrong
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
– Felix Adler
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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.
– John Boehner
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
– Yannick Noah
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
– Paul Tillich
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Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
– Peter Jennings
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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.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
– Elizabeth I
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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
– Nicolas Malebranche
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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.
– Derek Luke
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Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.
– Peter Welch
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Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.
– Grover Norquist
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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
– Terry Eagleton
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
– Julia Cameron
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
– Pat Summitt
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Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
– Denise Mina
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Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
– Ray Comfort
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Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.
– Timothy Radcliffe
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Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
– Mitt Romney
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Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.
– Dinesh D'Souza
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
– Bear Grylls
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Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
– Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
– Thomas S. Monson
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
– Samantha Morton
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By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
– Sextus Propertius
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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.
– Mikhail Bakunin
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But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.
– Miley Cyrus
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But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
– Polly Toynbee
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
– Anna Letitia Barbauld
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But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.
– Joseph Jarman
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Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.
– Rich Lowry
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Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.
– Ricky Martin
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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
– Bruce Springsteen
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
– Marquis de Sade
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
– Dean Inge
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Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
– Charles Stanley
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Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
– Rupert Sheldrake
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
– Mason Cooley
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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
– Henry Miller
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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.
– George Papandreou
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At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
– Luke Ford
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At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
– Richard Dawkins
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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.
– Whittaker Chambers
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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
– Whittaker Chambers
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Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
– Alphonsus Liguori
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
– David Brainerd
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As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
– Eliot Spitzer
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As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
– Jon Meacham
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As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
– Francis Parker Yockey
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As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
– Tim Scott
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As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
– Nick Rahall
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Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.
– Carrie-Anne Moss
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Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
– Dennis Kucinich
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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?
– Martin Luther
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
– Max Planck
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Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.
– Nikki Haley
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And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.
– Tim Tebow
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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
– Christopher Dawson
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
– Bear Grylls
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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.
– Pat Robertson
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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.
– Owen Glendower
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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
– Jon Meacham
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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.
– Thomas S. Monson
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Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
– Mortimer Zuckerman
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Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.
– Simon Hoggart
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American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
– Ginny Brown-Waite
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
– Bruce Lee
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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.
– Frances Wright
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All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.
– Mike Huckabee
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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.
– Mitch Daniels
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
– Dean Inge
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