As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.
I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.
People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career.
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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.
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.
The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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.
I would say that I definitely became much more religious. They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this stroke put me into a very deep foxhole. Yet that feeling of faith sustained me, so I have no feelings of anger or regret.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.
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.
Keep the faith; work hard: practice does make you perfect. Do what you can, and meet the right people to make it work.
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
There can be no doubt that the blessing, of which believers are heirs, is justification by faith; and that the promise, according to which they are heirs of this blessing, is the gospel promise made to Abraham.
