Quotes of: Blind-faith Keyword

It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.

Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction

Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?

Venus in Furs

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

Poppy Z. Brite

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

Shams-i Tabrizi

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

Joss Whedon

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

Robert Anton Wilson

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Mother Teresa

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Adam Clarke

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Charles R. Swindoll

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Elizabeth Goudge

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

Gary Bauer

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers...

Gordon Brown