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" The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. "

Karen Armstrong

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

" Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. "

" Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. "

" My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. "

" I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe. "

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

" Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. "

" I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word. "

" Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. "

" Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. "

William Law

Nature

Desire

" Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. "

" Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot. "

" Faith is never identical with piety. "

" I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility. "

" Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? "

" I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary. "

Deepak Chopra

President

Skills

" But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. "

" If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. "

" Faith is spiritualized imagination. "

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith

Imagination

" I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them. "

" I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. "

" The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. "

" Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. "

" The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Words

Faith

History

" The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work. "

" Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith. "

" Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. "

" The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. "

" 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. "

" Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with. "

Henry S. Haskins

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