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If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.


Studs Terkel

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FRED W. THOMPSON Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but be...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but bel...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions ...
IBRAHIM HOOPER Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru...
GORDON ATKINSON I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m...
FRANK MCCOURT If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increa...
DOROTHY DAY The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity an...
ROY L. SMITH May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ...
GARY F EVANS... A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
PROVERB A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
INDIAN PROVERB Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallibl...
RAY COMFORT Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yo...
GEORGE E WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your...
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your...
ALEC BOURNE In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. ...
GREG GRAFFIN They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians....
G.K. CHESTERTON But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
ST. AUGUSTINE Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relat...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH I do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring something regar...
SHERWOOD EDDY Whatever you feel is the force of faith.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The point is that some Muslims are offended by them. I think that people need to apply their own fai...
CAROLYN WASHBURN Regardless of what faith you are, if any prophet is depicted in that horrific of a manner, then that...
ARSALAN IFTIKHAR I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I p...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. ...
ALAN LIGHTMAN Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only ...
ALFRED BESTER It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.
A.W. TOZER Faith is to believe in what you do not yet see, the reward for faith is to see what you believe.
DETROIT RED WINGS (NHL) I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every rel...
GORDON BROWN Taking the Right Decision in any situation only requires TWO major ingredients:
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OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649 Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours, it is m...
PAUL K. JEWETT When one pauses to consider how thoroughly corrupted our censors must be by this time, it is difficu...
JUDITH WRIGHT I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the doers, no...
JOHN ADSHEAD If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of ...
BOB BARTLETT People have faith in very little. That is the reality of our way of life.
ALEXANDER KONOVALOV It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Believing in God is all about FAITH; Faith is a gift. If the person does not believe in God, it's be...
JOHN B. BEJO I have great respect for the LDS church - their commitment to family and taking care of each other i...
KYRSTEN SINEMA Have Faith in the Pursuit of your Dreams.
LUCHO LUIS VIDES Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand...
SOURCE UNKNOWN People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, th...
JOEL OSTEEN I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
VALERIE BERTINELLI I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
PAT BUCHANAN I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on ...
DEXTER PALMER The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all,...
RIDLEY SCOTT I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, noti...
JOHN WESLEY I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science ficti...
CONNIE WILLIS To believe in your self is to have faith in everything you do .If you do not have faith,then your se...
GARY F EVANS... A single prayer can alter your destiny if you have enough faith to believe. If this can be true, pra...
MACHEL SHULL Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying, 'Yes, I pre-accept the terms of t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT If you need proof of God to believe, then you will never have the faith you need to believe.
FATHOM I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.
JON TESTER The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is t...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that som...
JIMMY CARTER Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is ...
EDMUND BURKE Our model is more 'The Little Engine That Could. We've sort of lost our faith in the power of magic.
MARIA TATAR A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, ...
DONALD MCCAIG “No matter whatever you may lose in life but don't lose faith; It is the strongest weapon which ca...
DR. MATHIVANAN VELUMANI Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It is a dangerous world -- things that happen far away hit our doorstep, and affect our lives . And ...
WILL SIMONS Lack of confidence means you have no faith & no faith is equal to failure.One who is not confident i...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.
ADOLPH SAPHIR Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but the...
RICHARD DAWKINS Whatever faith you have, you have that crisis: what am I doing?
ETHAN COEN When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbol...
ROBERT GOBER Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
VOLTAIRE Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Some people say they will not believe in anything they can't see. What a catastrophe to not have any...
C. JOYBELL C. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would m...
MOHANDAS GANDHI Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. FORSTER EPIPHANY What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope fr...
GEORGE MACDONALD Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group...
JIM BUTCHER If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one s...
IGOR ELISEEV Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have yo...
RAY LEWIS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your fa...
JOHN BYTHEWAY I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that ...
KAREN HANDEL Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the firs...
J.I. PACKER He was never in any trouble here. He was a good teammate, a fit-in kind of player. I have complete f...
JACK MORAN Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I ha...
JOSS WHEDON Faith without any actions in accordance with God’s will is a dead faith
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