Faith Quotes - page 9

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)
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove. View quote
Owen D. Young
I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith. View quote
Peter Garrett
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. View quote
Paula Abdul
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. View quote
Rick Moody
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. View quote
Randy Neugebauer
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. View quote
William P. Leahy
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. View quote
Walter Kaufmann
I've always had great faith in people. View quote
Wayne Newton
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. View quote
William Ames
We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow. (Rachel Carson)
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal. View quote
Ayrton Senna
There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith. View quote
John Updike
My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am. View quote
Leymah Gbowee
The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. View quote
Karl Barth
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. View quote
Karl Barth
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. View quote
Fidel Castro
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. (Thomas Jefferson)
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. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
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. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar