In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker. – Mike McCurry
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. – Francis Quarles
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. – Peter Singer
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. – Tony Benn
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity – an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. – Bruce Barton
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. – Sextus Propertius
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. – Irving Babbitt
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. – Alexander Smith
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. – Walter Kaufmann
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. – Tony Campolo
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. – Mikhail Bakunin
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer. – William Ames
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. – Michael Shermer
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith. – Abu Bakr
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. – William Law
Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. – T. D. Jakes
