The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
God has always worked wonders through his prophets to increase the faith of His chosen people or to correct their disobedience.
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.
My record as a pro-life governor is not in dispute. I am completely pro-life, and I believe that we should have a culture of life. It's informed by my faith from beginning to end. And this not just as it related to unborn babies - I did it at the end of life issues as well. This is something that goes way beyond politics.
If selling had been part of his job description, Rusbridger, who never met a pound he had to earn that didn't disgust him in some visceral way, would have been disqualified long ago. Indeed, his early enthusiasm for the Internet - and a continuing principle of faith for him - was that it was free.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
