I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger rage fear sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
For me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
If you think you can win you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification not by faith but by verification.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
In economics hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.
Faith is what someone knows to be true whether they believe it or not.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.
As a people of faith we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Although a man may wear fine clothing if he lives peacefully and is good self-possessed has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being he is a holy man.
By any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.