When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

I've always thought and it gets tested at times that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

If then knowledge be power how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith and what elevation must it give to human character.

Human societies like human beings live by faith and die when faith dies.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who without impudence can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

True fans of the Constitution like true fans of the national pastime acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace no less than war requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

May it not be that just as we have to have faith in Him God has to have faith in us and considering the history of the human race so far may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump faith in its future progress and desire to serve the great cause of this progress should be called not a humanist but a humanitarian and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

An unexamined faith is not worth having for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door no human can shut it.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature the texts our first attempt at cosmology making sense of where we are in the universe our first attempt at health care believing in faith healing our first attempt at philosophy.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

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.

Blind faith no matter how passionately expressed will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Faith is different from proof the latter is human the former is a Gift from God.

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far but none comes further.