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.
A lot of people devote their lives to me and what I do. It means the most to be able to repay that faith.
Just as my search for my mother had in some ways shaped my life, her faith that I was alive had shaped hers. She couldn't search, but she did the next best thing: She stayed still.
It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social - as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message.
Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.
Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.
I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Anything I take up or do, I have to consult Shilpa. From what I wear to who I am dating, I make her a part of everything as I have faith in her judgment.
You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
I'm a walking testimony, a product of all the people in my life and my faith.
I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.
We are a nation with a powerful investment in the idea of our own fundamental innocence. Our can-do optimism and ingenuity are based on the faith that we are a decent, open, and generous people. This is our identity.
Faith is reason grown courageous.
Faith is not contrary to reason.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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.
There's always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There's evil in all of us. It's just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.
My husband and I have been married for 15 years. He is a priest in the Church of Sweden. I have a faith, but it's not so formal. We made our peace with that.
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.
I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Every character that I've chosen has made me evolve as an actor. And I am lucky that my directors have shown so much faith in my abilities.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
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.
Faith Hill is a big role model.
I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.
I have never known Frances to complain once of my Church responsibilities. I have been gone many days and many nights, and I have rarely been able to sit with her in the congregation. But there is no one like her - absolutely no one. She is in every way supportive and is a woman of quiet and profoundly powerful faith.
Faith is in the eye of the beholder.
And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.