3 December 2020 Georges Bernanos Faith is not a thing which one ‘loses,’ we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Shermer Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
3 December 2020 Julia Ward Howe While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
3 December 2020 William James Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
3 December 2020 David Knopfler My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
3 December 2020 Georg Simmel In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
3 December 2020 John Cornyn The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
3 December 2020 Rowan Williams I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
3 December 2020 Walter Kaufmann 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.
3 December 2020 John L. Lewis Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor’s right to live has been challenged and denied.
3 December 2020 Eric Liu ‘The Purpose-Driven Life’ is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
3 December 2020 John Boehner 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.
3 December 2020 Samantha Morton Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
3 December 2020 Robert Burton Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
3 December 2020 Donny Osmond Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I’ll say that until the day I die.
3 December 2020 George Sand 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.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.
3 December 2020 Holly Marie Combs Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don’t let anyone take it away from you, ever.
3 December 2020 Ed Miliband The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
3 December 2020 Martin Van Buren The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
3 December 2020 Simon Hoggart 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.
