I don’t know what religious people do. I kind of wished I’d been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
All the changes that have happened in my career have been since I left the Mormon faith.
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don’t necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren’t religious.
No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Despite everything I’ve been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Cleveland Browns stuck their neck out and risked taking me and put their faith and belief in me, and I won’t let them down.
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.
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.
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.
I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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.
Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
God’s got something for me. I have faith it’ll be OK.
