Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. – Thornton Wilder
I think it’s imperative to have faith or religion, because it’s good to have morals, to be kind to others. – Tinie Tempah
The teenage years are the years to examine faith – the need to be independent and the need to be anchored. Who made all this? And what do I have to do with it? – Virginia Euwer Wolff
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. – Sheri L. Dew
My main question that I ask of my characters is, ‘What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?’ – Stewart O’Nan
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. – Walter Kaufmann
I seek a deeper truth, but I don’t think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it. – Ted Lange
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. – Sextus Propertius
Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection. – Stanley Hauerwas
When became citizens, we took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and laws and bear faith and allegiance to the same. When I became a judge last year, I took the very same oath administered by Justice O’Conner. Rather amazingly, I’m now in the position to administer that oath to others who themselves are becoming citizens. – Sri Srinivasan
Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt. – Wayne Dyer
Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime. – Stanley Hauerwas
To believe Christ’s cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith. – Samuel Rutherford
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. – Tony Snow
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. – Thomas Goodwin
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. – Whittaker Chambers
I’m thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It’s something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can. – Tim Tebow
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. – Wislawa Szymborska
When we step out in faith and use the talents He’s given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed. – Victoria Osteen
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations. – Sabine Baring-Gould
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. – Thomas Huxley
There has to be a measure of faith. That’s what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of. – Wentworth Miller
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. – Thomas Kuhn
Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. – Henry B. Eyring
