Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.
I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
Faith in technocrats over politicians is not a trend from which Britain is exempt.
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.
I've always had great faith in people.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
My tunnel vision work ethic is very hard to come by, I believe. I have had an unwavering faith in myself and my career for as long as I can remember.
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.
Have a little faith. Don't give up.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
