Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
I have always been up for risks, but only because I had full confidence and faith in the vision of my directors.
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
My Christian faith has guided me.
I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.
Having faith allows me to try to be the best person I can be.
I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
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.
My faith always kept me focused and strong.
My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians.
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.
When you have a new idea that hasn't been done before, you need that conviction, that blind faith that it could work.
The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
My faith has helped me face adversity. Adversity makes you stronger.
My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.
There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.
You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.
I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.
I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.