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"Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity." »George Frost Kennan
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"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live." »George E. Woodberry
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"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for." »Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for." »Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
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"We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith." »Real Live Preacher
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"Doubt vs. faith Doubt sees the obstacles. faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night. faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step. faith soars on high. Doubt questions,'Who believes' faith answers,'I'." »Unknown
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"We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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"May it not be that, just as we 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" »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity." »Hippocrates
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." »Hubert Humphrey
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"By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne" »William M. Evarts
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"faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice." »George Goethals
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"All faith is false, all faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
His little bit the whole to own." »Sir Richard Francis Burton
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"You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith." »Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984
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"faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves." »Eric Hoffer
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"Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." »Abraham Lincoln
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"America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution, but restoration." »Warren G. Harding
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"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." »Johann Kaspar Lavater
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"faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." »Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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"faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits." »Dan Barker
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"I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly." »Ingrid Weir
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"Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood." »Arthur Miller, The Crucible, act II
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"Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith." »Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
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"Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart." »Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow"
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"The faith that stand on authority is not faith." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Love is faith, and one faith leads to another." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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“There's a difference between having the faith to believe and having the faith to receive."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated" »Tyron Edwards
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