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Faith Quotes


"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."


"In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother."


"In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist."


"The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country."


"Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person."


"Trust the Lord to help you fully commit yourself to His service."


"My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other."


"I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith."


"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."


"Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful."


"My faith always has been and always will be important to me."


"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."


"I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history."


"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."


"That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."


"I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread."


"There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again."


"The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do."


"Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me."


"I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world."


"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it."


"I hold that religion and faith are two different things."
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