Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.
I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Believers do not carry their faith, faith is their wings. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary.
A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.
Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties… go after your faith with body, mind & soul.
Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.
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Reflection comes between us and every other person and object in the world. An object or a person can be reflected in so many different ways. Yet the heart of an object or the essence of the heart can never be reflected. All faith and creativity is t...
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ ...
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You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that ...
God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don...
Perhaps after all, for all our talk of change, redemption or personal growth, for all our dependence on therapists, religious faith or mood-altering drugs both legal and non, we're doomed simply to go on repeating the same patterns over and over in o...
