Quotes About Belief

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.

Faith comes out of the heart not the head.

I have great faith in the jury system.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.

America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

To a lot of people, angels are a matter of faith.

You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a whole big part of what is going on politically."

Faith without challenge is nothing.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.