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Faith

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations. – Martin Van Buren

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? – Caleb Cushing

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. – Whittaker Chambers

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have. – Studs Terkel

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. – Walter Martin

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. – Charles Simeon

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. – Marian Wright Edelman

I try to act out of faith. – Marian Wright Edelman

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. – Marian Wright Edelman

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith. – Benny Hinn

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws. – Paul Davies

Fanatics do not have faith – they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. – Yann Martel

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. – James L. Buckley

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. – Abraham Kuyper

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it. – Robin Wright Penn

I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility. – Ted Cruz

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. – Hans Urs von Balthasar