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" I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church. "

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" In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it. "

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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

" I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing. "

" If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. "

George Gurdjieff

" The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance. "

Henry B. Eyring

" When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith. "

Glennon Doyle Melton

" Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith. "

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

" I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization. It's an organization of men - it's not about faith. "

" Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it. "

" Society lives by faith, and develops by science. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" As a former Commander, I gave an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. As a state senator, I gave that same oath. As a Congressman, I gave an oath to defend the Constitution. There are some things that are not negotiable: Faith, my family, and the Constitution are dead center. It is nonnegotiable to me. "

" Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. "

Christopher Hitchens

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

" Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers. "

" What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom. "

" The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience. "

" We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other. "

" The biggest threats to faith aren't anything outside of it: they come bearing the name. It's why I find it especially important to call it out - also why I find it especially repulsive when people who crow the loudest about being Christians and use it as a money-making scheme utterly betray the faith when not on camera or in a crowd. "

" Faith is a passionate intuition. "

William Wordsworth

" Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. "

" I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way. "

" Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. "

Bruce Springsteen

" As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come. "

" It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. "

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" Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. "