“All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.”
Faith means different things to different people — trust in God, trust in the process, trust in other human beings. These quotes explore belief in all its forms, from religious devotion to the secular kind of faith that gets you through Tuesday.
“My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.”
“All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.”
“For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.”
“Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.”
“There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.”
“I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.”
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.”
“I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.”
“You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.”
“We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.”
“I have never lost my faith in God.”
“God enters by a private door into every individual.”
“My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.”