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

Glennon Doyle Melton

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" Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself. "

" I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith. "

Denis McDonough

" Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. "

" Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. "

" It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. "

" I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible. "

Sandrine Bonnaire

" Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. "

" I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me. "

Adoniram Judson

" In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. "

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

" Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. "

Oliver Cromwell

" Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. "

" Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. "

Francis Quarles

" If I have the honor of being confirmed by the Senate, I will make it my highest priority to restore the public's confidence in the FBI and to re-earn the faith and trust of the American people. "

" I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. "

" I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature. "

Mother Angelica

" I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care. "

Madonna Ciccone

" 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. "

" Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. "

Susan L. Taylor

" There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic. "

Frederica Mathewes-Green

" I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. "

" That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. "

Chester W. Nimitz

" I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more. "

" If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. "

" Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. "

Karen Armstrong

" I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret. "

" Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. "

" Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. "

Thomas S. Monson