3 December 2020 Martin Luther Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
3 December 2020 Ron Chernow The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
3 December 2020 Charles Hodge If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.
3 December 2020 Barbara Smith Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
3 December 2020 Julia Sweeney To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I’m adding up the evidence on either side, and I’m seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don’t only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches’ bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government – yes, a Labour government – is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
3 December 2020 Mark Foley In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks The royals – all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles – have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
3 December 2020 Herbert Croly The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
3 December 2020 Jeb Bush We are stronger because we recognize that government isn’t the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
3 December 2020 Mahalia Jackson Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
3 December 2020 Juan Goytisolo In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
3 December 2020 Ignatius Loyola The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India… has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
3 December 2020 Emanuel Swedenborg In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
3 December 2020 Pearl S. Buck I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
