Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
In India, one has to have faith in equity. What are the alternatives - real estate, debt? If debt can give you 6 percent, equity can give you 15 percent.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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.
If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.
We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.
Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.
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.
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.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.
Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.
I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.'
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
My faith is in God. If it's a little statue of Buddha or whatever works for you, brilliant.
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is 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.
I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
I'm originally from Victorville, California, I grew up there. You know, it was a journey, because in Victorville, you know, it's tough out there. It's not like, the easiest place to grow up, so I had just faith in God that if I keep working hard, I could make a way for myself, so my faith in God is something I need, it's essential.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.