Faith Quotes

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

I have faith in my imperfections!

A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.