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" 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. "

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" In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.' "

Abraham Verghese

Faith

America

Battle

" Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse? "

" 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. "

" Faith is the black person's federal reserve system. "

" Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. "

" Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. "

" A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her. "

" One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world. "

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

John Piper

Essence

God

" I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views. "

" The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Man

Act

Faith

" I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief. "

" If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it? "

" You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. "

" To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept. "

" The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. "

" Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it. "

" Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism. "

" Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety. "

" Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend. "

" I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion. "

Joe Rogan

Black

You

" Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. "

" Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. "

" Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. "

" If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver. "

" To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. "

" I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. "

" It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? "

" The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. "

" Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. "