Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.

To try to fashion something from suffering to relish our triumphs and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

I don't need faith.

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades because elected leaders fail to deliver.

With gridlock the norm Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Act strenuously would appear to be our faith and right thinking will take care of itself.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus things start breaking down they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ the very linchpin of their religion.

Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads round and green these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it or rational argument that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.