3 December 2020 Bill Owens In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth I Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
3 December 2020 Robert Cecil Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
3 December 2020 Sextus Propertius By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
3 December 2020 Bear Grylls I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
3 December 2020 Matthew Simpson We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
3 December 2020 Sheila Jackson Lee Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.
3 December 2020 Martha Graham Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
3 December 2020 Erich Fromm Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
3 December 2020 Ray Comfort If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.
3 December 2020 Tim Tebow And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve.
3 December 2020 Paul Simon Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
3 December 2020 Scott Stapp It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn’t claimed my faith as my own I had just grown up with it.
3 December 2020 Alphonsus Liguori Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins At least the fundamentalists haven’t tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
3 December 2020 Johann Kaspar Lavater I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
