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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.


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GORDON ATKINSON The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
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DAPHNE WASHINGTON God is angry with me, but I cannot be angry with him. This is a test of my faith. I have nothing els...
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ED GILLESPIE I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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JIM BAKKER I have been asked on hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to co...
BILLY GRAHAM If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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VICTORIA OSTEEN 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 My faith guides my life.
KAY HAGAN God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my fait...
GORDON ATKINSON Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my fait...
TIM TEBOW Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where s...
CRISS JAMI My eyes is fixed on faith in God alone.
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C. JOYBELL C. Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
SAMANTHA MORTON I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that som...
JIMMY CARTER It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic o...
YUSUF ISLAM The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of P...
JEREMIAH DAY Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads ...
MIROSLAV VOLF If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MOORE Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite di...
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ABHIJIT NASKAR There has never been a moment when faith hasn't been an important part of my life. There have be...
MARCO RUBIO My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely...
ALLYSON FELIX The faith you have in GOD should be a mirror image of the faith you have in yourself
N. S. COLE The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service fo...
GEORGE MULLER I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that Go...
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JOHN GLENN Have Faith in the Pursuit of your Dreams.
LUCHO LUIS VIDES Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve...
PHILLIPS BROOKS My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God ...
MAHATMA GANDHI I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I d...
SAINT PATRICK Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
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SUSIE L HILL Faith is really testing my faith.
MICHELE ROWLAND Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be? My God, no...
GEORGE HERBERT I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted A...
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TIM TEBOW My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
JOHN COLTRANE When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life...
JEREMY LIN I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm...
MARK TWAIN My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceive...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians....
G.K. CHESTERTON Still, the belief in God was essentially a question of faith. Even for those, like Jeremy, who belie...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The High Sheikh invoked a few passages from the Greater Book, explaining that if a believer were to ...
BASMA ABDEL AZIZ There is no simple theological answer to pain; the answer is a relationship with God in the midst of...
HENRY CLOUD Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE Brutally disrupt my mind may become with words harsh and cruel to follow, the true beauty is in the ...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. It's a large part of my life, but its kind of hard to have it be a large part of my life, because yo...
ELLEN ANDERSON ... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, f...
MORTIMER J. ADLER To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
THOMAS AQUINAS To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS I have faith in my imperfections!
DANA DELANY At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.
TAGG ROMNEY Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith i...
RAVI ZACHARIAS I don't believe for a minute that the proof of God's existence is achieved. My faith prohibits me fr...
LAURENCE COSSé Galvin uses the word 'faith' several times in his summation to the jury, ... He says, 'In my faith, ...
SIDNEY LUMET The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an...
T. B. JOSHUA Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I ...
OSCAR WILDE My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
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SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic d...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Without acting I cannot breathe.
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LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperam...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I like Paris. My problem is I don't like Parisians."
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperam...
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LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
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LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Without acting I cannot breathe.
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LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic d...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
SIR LAWRENCE OLIVIER My dear boy, why don't you try acting? (on the set of 'Marathon Man', to Dustin Hoffman, who had ann...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared w...
OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like...
OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR