So often, when we don’t have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
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?
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there’s so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet’s life.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains – if moving mountains accomplishes God’s purposes and is in accordance with His will.
My faith in God is healing my heart so I can have peace.
I am looking for projects that challenge me, make me uncomfortable, and also projects that are in the hands of the right team. Then it’s up to me to take a leap of faith.
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.
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.
People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.
I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I’ll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.
Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?
