3 December 2020 Derek Luke 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.
3 December 2020 Harriet Beecher Stowe I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
3 December 2020 Romain Rolland Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
3 December 2020 Francis Wright Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
3 December 2020 Paul Davies Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term ‘doubting Thomas’ well illustrates the difference.
3 December 2020 Blanche Lincoln Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.
3 December 2020 William James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
3 December 2020 David E. Price Our country’s political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.
3 December 2020 Jim Wallis I’m often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it’s very real. I think it’s deeply held.
3 December 2020 Felix Adler For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
3 December 2020 James Wolcott After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of ‘Glee,’ a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of ‘spirit fingers’ to chase our cares and woes into somebody else’s backyard.
3 December 2020 Hans Urs von Balthasar 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.
3 December 2020 Dan Quayle 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?
3 December 2020 Francis Beaumont Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
3 December 2020 James McGreevey I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
3 December 2020 John Clayton Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
3 December 2020 Paul Davies We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.
3 December 2020 David Brainerd 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.
3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
3 December 2020 Peter Welch 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.
3 December 2020 Dean Inge 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.
