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" An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. "

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" Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. "

Henry David Thoreau

" It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. "

" Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him. "

Nicholas Kristof

" I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. "

" My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim. "

Ilyasah Shabazz

" I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve. "

" Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. "

" Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. "

" A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. "

Joseph Smith, Jr.

" The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. "

" People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior. "

" I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better. "

" 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. "

Randy Neugebauer

" Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. "

" In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions. "

" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "

" Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought. "

" The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches. "

" The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. "

" Duty cannot exist without faith. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.' "

Roger Rosenblatt

" There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. "

" Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? "

Valerie Bertinelli

" Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. "

" Have faith in your own thoughts. "

" For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. "

" An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. "

" Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. "

Rupert Sheldrake