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" In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. "

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" The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? "

" There's a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team. "

" 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? "

Dwight L. Moody

" Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.' "

" We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift. "

" What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good? "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. "

" Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. "

Henry David Thoreau

" It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. "

" Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. "

" Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic. "

Stanley Hauerwas

" Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show. "

" Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. "

" Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy. "

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

" Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. "

" What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time. "

" A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. "

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

" I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith. "

" I am mentally bifocal. "

" I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion? "

" To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. "

" I would say to you, have faith in yourself - believe in what you are doing, and, most important, be a person of integrity. It is totally up to you, and no one else, how your life evolves. "

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

" Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. "

" An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. "

Oswald Chambers

" If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. "

" When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin