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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. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too. – Yannick Noah

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. – Christopher Dawson

I have faith in the jury system. – Nancy Grace

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. – Luke Ford

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time. – Maurice Greene

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. – William Ames

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. – Marie de France

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil. – Michelle Shocked

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. – Tony Visconti

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. – Kamisese Mara

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong. – Ricky Martin

My faith always has been and always will be important to me. – Aretha Franklin

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. – David Brainerd

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. – Felix Adler

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. – Felix Adler

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot. – Nikki Haley

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. – Elihu Root

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief. – Georg Simmel

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come. – Walter Lang