- The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
- Alice Walker on Faith
- The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
- Claude Bernard on Faith
- The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
- Ralph Marston on Faith
- The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
- Thomas Huxley on Faith
- The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
- Roy L. Smith on Faith
- The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Faith
- The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
- Jeff Miller on Faith
- The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
- J. C. Watts on Faith
- The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
- Jim Wallis on Faith
- The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
- Richard Dawkins on Faith
- The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
- Elihu Root on Faith
- The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
- Benjamin Carson on Faith
- The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.
- Kenneth Scott Latourette on Faith
- 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.
- Simone Weil on Faith
- The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson on Faith
- The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
- Mark Hatfield on Faith
- The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
- James Russell Lowell on Faith
- The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
- Dorothy Thompson on Faith
- The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
- David Viscott on Faith
- The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
- Clarence Darrow on Faith
- The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
- Abraham Cahan on Faith
- The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
- Dan Quayle on Faith
- The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
- William Jennings Bryan on Faith
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose on Faith
- The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
- Randy Neugebauer on Faith
- The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
- Augustus Hare on Faith
- The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
- Ignatius Loyola on Faith
- The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
- Richard Eyre on Faith
- The principle part of faith is patience.
- George MacDonald on Faith
- The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
- Michael Polanyi on Faith
- The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
- Ron Chernow on Faith
- The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.
- Gary Bauer on Faith
- The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
- Matthew Simpson on Faith
- The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
- Jonathan Sacks on Faith
- The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
- Alexander Smith on Faith
- The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Faith
- The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau on Faith
- The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.
- Chelsea Clinton on Faith
- The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
- Ron Suskind on Faith
- 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.
- Thomas Aquinas on Faith
- The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
- Charles Hodge on Faith
- The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
- Hal Borland on Faith
- 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.
- Martin Van Buren on Faith
- The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
- Timothy Radcliffe on Faith
- The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
- Benjamin Franklin on Faith
- The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
- John Foster Dulles on Faith
- There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
- Patrick Wilson on Faith
- There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
- M. Night Shyamalan on Faith
- There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
- Marie De France on Faith
- There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.
- Lawrence Wright on Faith
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