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Faith Quotes

"Vision looks upward and becomes faith."

"Vision looks upward and becomes faith."

Stephen Samuel Wise, American Clergyman

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"I believe in the word of God."

"I believe in the word of God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Faith, Word, God, Belief, Life

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"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."

"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, American President

Faith, Performance, States, United

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"When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith."

"When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith."

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, American Educator

Faith, People, Deep

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"The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus."

"The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Faith, God, Being

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"It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country."

"It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country."

Daniel Berrigan, American Clergyman

Faith, Religion, Country, Years

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"Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence."

"Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence."

Arthur H. Compton, American Scientist

Faith, Truth, Discovery, Existence

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"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Faith, Religion, Act, Certainty, Sea

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"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it."

"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it."

Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

Faith, Fact, Spirit

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"It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it."

"It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it."

Scott Stapp, American Musician

Faith, Fighting, Nothing

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"I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed."

"I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed."

Dave Reichert, American Politician

Faith, Men, Women, People

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"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."

"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."

George Carey, English Clergyman

Faith, Conflict, Doubt, Will

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"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."

"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."

Daniel Libeskind, Polish Architect

Faith, Mountains

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"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe."

"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe."

Claude Bernard, French Psychologist

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"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Faith, Fear, Confidence, Harm

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"You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all."

"You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Faith, Brother, Love, Religion

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"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

William Ralph Inge, English Clergyman

Faith, Belief, Values, Reality

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"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why."

"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why."

Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist

Faith, Love, Action, Hope

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"The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith."

"The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith."

Andy Williams, American Musician

Faith, Honesty, Children, Integrity

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"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

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"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Faith, Knowledge, Nothing

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"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Faith, Experience, Conviction

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"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them."

"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them."

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, American Educator

Faith, Equality, Liberty, Now

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"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."

"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

Faith, Sympathy, Progress, Cause

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"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."

"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."

Norman Cousins, American Editor

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"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."

"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, French Poet

Faith, Men, Discretion, End

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"I cried to the Lord. He heard my tears of prayer, from His holy hill."

"I cried to the Lord. He heard my tears of prayer, from His holy hill."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Faith, Cry, Lord, Prayer

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"Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself."

"Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself."

Alberta Hunter, American Musician

Faith, God, Confidence

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

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

Luke Ford, Australian Writer

Faith, Time, Love, Men

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"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Faith, God, People, Heart

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"Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record."

"Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record."

Ken Hensley, English Musician

Faith, Christian, Expression, Musicians

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"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."

"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."

Javier Bardem, Spanish Actor

Faith, People, Fear, Control

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"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."

Ernst Fischer, Austrian Writer

Faith, Art, Change, Society

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"Aside your dreams to improve your community, country and continent, dare to save a soul for God. Show compassion, show love... Feed hungry souls and let God be glorified!"

"Aside your dreams to improve your community, country and continent, dare to save a soul for God. Show compassion, show love... Feed hungry souls and let God be glorified!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Faith, Community, Soul, God, Compassion

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"Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason."

"Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason."

Hal Borland, American Author

Faith, Time, Wisdom, Beginnings

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"We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families."

"We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families."

Jeb Bush, American Politician

Faith, Government, Community, Needs

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"Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies."

"Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies."

Whittaker Chambers, American Writer

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"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

Bruce Springsteen, American Musician

Faith, Blind, Leaders, Will

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"A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it."

"A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it."

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

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"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."

"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."

Andrew Denton, Australian Comedian

Faith, People, Actions, Blind

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"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

Mary McLeod Bethune, American Educator

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"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing."

"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing."

Robert Collier, American Publisher

Faith, Truth, Confidence

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"After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat."

"After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat."

Martha Gellhorn, American Journalist

Faith, War, People, Defeat

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"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."

"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."

Patrick White, Australian Author

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"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."

"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."

Loretta Young, American Actress

Faith, God, Courage, Gifts

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"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset."

"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

Faith, People, Feeling, Freedom

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"I find rest for my soul in arms of the Saviour."

"I find rest for my soul in arms of the Saviour."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Faith, Rest, Soul, Saviour

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"Ask God for what you desire."

"Ask God for what you desire."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Faith, God, Desire, Ask

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"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."

"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."

James W. Fulbright, American Politician

Faith, Act, Democracy, Dissent

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