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Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
King Hussein I on faith

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland on faith

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
Barry Commoner on faith

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
Emanuel Swedenborg on faith

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Thomas Browne on faith

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Thomas Browne on faith

The faith I was born into formed me.
Huston Smith on faith

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.
Huston Smith on faith

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
Dean Inge on faith

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
Kirstie Alley on faith

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
Polly Toynbee on faith

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
Polly Toynbee on faith

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.
Jane Siberry on faith

Have faith in your own thoughts.
Brooke Shields on faith

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
Peter Jennings on faith

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
Peter Jennings on faith

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.
Juliana Hatfield on faith

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.
Johan Huizinga on faith

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
Eric Ries on faith

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
Geraldine Brooks on faith