Quotes About Faith

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.

I still and will always have a passion for martial arts and do not believe, as a Christian, that it's wrong for myself to compete in a professional sport that is violent.

The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.

You won't see Christians violently attacking people for criticising their religion like you do with Islam, things like the Charlie Hebdo attack.

My family was very open. My grandfather was German and a Protestant. My father, a lawyer, was Greek-Catholic and played the violin. My mother was very religious and went to church twice a day. My grandmother was Armenian. So I was raised with three different faiths - that's why I am so open.

Well, traditionally, my husband and I go back to our farm in Virginia but we do Christmas every day. We truly do. For us, it's about giving. We are of the Christian faith we believe that if people can see God in us, then we're actually doing our job.

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Since the early 1960s, since what's been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that virtually every problem a human can have is of demonic origin.

I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision.

God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.