Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers;
Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.
And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.
Americans honor and respect each other's faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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.
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.
I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.
I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing.... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.
It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.
When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.
How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him "patience is to faith, as the head is to the body."
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
I've never linked team selection to offering prayers, and reports suggesting otherwise are all wrong.
I grew up Catholic. The Catholic faith has played an integral role in my life. At the same time, I don't think that there is a single person that doesn't have some disagreements with their faith.
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.
To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.
Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.
I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.'
There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
To even win a nomination in this country, you have to say you're a person of great faith. You have to pledge to the people out there that you put your faith in things that are unable to be proven - that you suspend critical thinking as the way to go.
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
Any player in our cricket team has reached here because of the prayers of his mother.
To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.
Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the Lord will help us.
Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
sometimes i wonder does god just not care are is he to busy ignoring your prayers
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.
The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith.
Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.
I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.
Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day.
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
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