The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
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Related Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are act... RICHARD LINKLATER Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. GEORGE ILES I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith ... ABHIJIT NASKAR People put their faith in man, because they are too scared to put their faith in GOD. AARON CONN All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC Those who worry stumble long The Way. Those who pray have no time to stray. ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY Remember , no storm will ever last a life time. Just hold on, be brave and have faith. Before you kn... DIANERSTE ROSS When things are not working out according to your will..Don't be upset. That means, things are ... ABHIPSA MONDAL God is too big to be accommodated in your eyeball, you don't have to see Him in order to believe in ... LEONARD ONDIGO Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are com... ADAM HAMILTON We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET Their devotion had never been put to any serious test, and might not have withstood one; their love ... TED CHIANG Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?" "Because you will never again be able to keep it ... PAULO COELHO You are strong and you know it. Even when you are faced with problems, all you have to do is look wi... LATIKA TEOTIA Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Life sometimes seem difficult to live and too negative. But, with Allah Almighty every difficult and... SALSABEEL Faith Never does seem Feasible JOCELYN ANDERSEN I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. AIDAN QUINN You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there i... ZAC GOLDSMITH His faith was like the radar of a bat, it took him through the darkness that surrounded him. It woul... MARK A. COOPER In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays. DIABLO CODY I feel like our religion and our faith have been hijacked. What is bothering me the most is the misa... NEIL YOUNG God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at... MAGGIE GALLAGHER Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. BEN STEIN Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. FRANCINE RIVERS The family does not feel defeated and they still have faith in God that the Supreme Court will accep... ARMANDO GUTIERREZ Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be time... JAMES DOBSON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE The faith you have in GOD should be a mirror image of the faith you have in yourself N. S. COLE Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibilit... LISA WINGATE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... W. H. AUDEN There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered. MANDY HALE I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? VALERIE BERTINELLI Have faith in God; God has faith in you. EDWIN LOUIS COLE Life is nothing without expectations but will pain a lot when it fails, make the best efforts to mak... ANANDHA When it comes to believing in the important things in life (like love, hope, justice, peace) we have... JON MORRISON I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through... MARIE OSMOND Galvin uses the word 'faith' several times in his summation to the jury, ... He says, 'In my faith, ... SIDNEY LUMET May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... W. H. AUDEN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON In every religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. it is in modern day... STEVE MARABOLI When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not. STEVE NASH There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. IAN MCKELLEN Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want. ABHIJIT NASKAR In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in mo... STEVE MARABOLI I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on t... CHERIE LUNGHI While many religious conservatives may have qualms with aspects of Mormon theology, they have even g... MICHAEL CROMARTIE There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live th... GRETCHEN CARLSON I tried hard to understand that there is no God But i failed . and now i chose to be smarter than to... ANWAR DANI You have to educate religious bodies that social justice is faith in action. LINDA HILTON They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians.... G.K. CHESTERTON There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith... ERIC BUTTERWORTH It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in t... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and y... GARTH ENNIS It took more shots than usual [against Denver], but eventually it worked out. I have a lot of faith ... MICHAEL CULVER An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have... VICTORIA OSTEEN It only takes great faith to start small because,in the faith world small is big. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures,... JOHN WYCLIFFE But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. MAHATMA GANDHI Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the... GEORGE S. PATTON These men that kill 100, 50 and 70 men a day -- have they been put to death. How many have been put ... ABU ABBAS He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who k... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. ABHIJIT NASKAR Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. HOWARD RHEINGOLD I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past. HARRY HAMLIN My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this... BARRY LOPEZ You can't get caught up in how many sacks does a guy have because it doesn't tell the whole story. P... MIKE RUCKER I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m... FRANK MCCOURT The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcome... POPE BENEDICT XVI In life, opposition is inevitable; determination without passion is pointless. – Kendrick Backmon KENDRICK BACKMON Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test. OLIVER THOMAS Hope is our greatest resource! KAREN PASHLEY Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity mea... JOSS WHEDON When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd... LEWIS BLACK Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind ... JOHN C. LENNOX If one attains only the faith in the Self, he will not experience fear anywhere at all, fear will go... DADA BHAGWAN Your faith is your conscience, and your conscience is your faith. You cannot have faith without a co... SUZY KASSEM Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have yo... RAY LEWIS No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH
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not have given them to such a sco... JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu... JONATHAN SWIFT Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left. Which ever side you think i... JONATHAN BAILEY If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou... JONATHAN SWIFT Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op... JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno... JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ... JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju... JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w... JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. JONATHAN SWIFT I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas... JONATHAN KOZOL I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch... JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. JONATHAN SWIFT If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop... JONATHAN MARTIN The true art of government consists in not governing too much. JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous. JONATHAN SWIFT Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. JONATHAN TOM More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life. JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... JONATHAN TROPPER Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he... JONATHAN STROUD A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e... JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a... JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. JONATHAN PRICE Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking JONATHAN STROUD The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ... JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that. JONATHAN STROUD