1,000 Quotes Regarding Faith


Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
Rupert Sheldrake

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
Rupert Sheldrake

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
Richard Linklater

If faith is your motivation, share that.
Tim Kaine

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
Gene Robinson

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.
Gene Robinson

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.
Gene Robinson

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
Laurel Lee

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

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
William P. Leahy

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
William P. Leahy

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
Abu Bakar Bashir

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
Leverett Saltonstall

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
Alberta Hunter

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
Marvin Hamlisch

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.
Rob Bell

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
Rob Bell

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
Rob Bell