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Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
— Wallace Shawn
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
— John Bolton
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
I have been with Donald for 18 years, and I have been aware of his love for this country since we first met. He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism because, like me, he loves this country so much.
— Melania Trump
However British you may be, I am more British still.
— Henry James
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
— Bill Maher
Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.
— Clive Sinclair
I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
— Tom Hooper
In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
— Tom Hooper
There's a fine line between patriotism and corn.
— David L. Wolper
The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
— Michael Mandelbaum
I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.
— Christopher McCulloch
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
— Mick Jagger
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
— Alfred Adler
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
— William Cowper
Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.
— John Abizaid
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
— Todd Gitlin
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
— Todd Gitlin
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
— Henry A. Wallace
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
— Richard Ford
If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
— Bob Hope
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— George Galloway
I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
— Nate Parker
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
— Parker Stevenson
Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
— Richard Dreyfuss
I am a loyal American, and I love my country.
— Steven Hatfill
Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
— Sam Houston
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
— Chaim Potok
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
— Robert Walpole
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
— Robert Walpole
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
— Herbert Croly
In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
— John Sergeant Wise
But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
— Jack Bowman
Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
— Veerappa Moily
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
— Thomas Steinbeck
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
— Bill Kristol
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
— Janet Suzman
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
— Bill Kristol
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
— Bernadine Dohrn
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
— John Dos Passos
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
— Greil Marcus
Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
— Jodi Kantor
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
— John Woo
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
— Marian Anderson
I don't have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind.
— Diane Hendricks
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
— John Amery
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
— Chrissie Hynde
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
— Ricardo Montalban
I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
— Palaniappan Chidambaram
I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
— Dominique de Villepin
To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.
— Joseph M. Kyrillos
The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.
— Leon Bourgeois
Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
— Franklin Knight Lane
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
— Franklin Knight Lane
I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.
— Wojciech Jaruzelski
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
— Mike Ferguson
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
— Charles Edward Montague
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
— David Starr Jordan
Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.
— Emily Levine
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
— Eric Hobsbawm
It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
— Prescott Bush
Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
— Vic Snyder
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
— William Blum
Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America.
— Jeff Denham
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
— Will Thomas
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
— Antonio Lobo Antunes
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
— Edith Cavell
Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith. 
— Kareena Kapoor Khan
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
— Bruce Lee
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
— Steve Jobs
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
— Muhammad Ali
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.
— Judith Hill
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
— Billy Graham
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
— Khalil Gibran
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. 
— Saint Augustine
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
— Joe Biden
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
— George Herbert
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
— Martin Luther
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
— Martin Luther
It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
— Steve Jobs
As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!
— Victoria Osteen
We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.
— Joyce Meyer
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
— Dan Millman
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
— Plato
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.
— Henry B. Eyring
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.
— Stephen Curry
If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.
— Robert Jeffress
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
— Fidel Castro
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
— Martin Luther
Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief. 
— Edwin Louis Cole
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
— Julia Cameron
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
— Thomas S. Monson
I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.
— Melanie Fiona
I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend.
— Virat Kohli
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.
— Robert Reich
We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
— John D. Rockefeller
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
— Martin Luther
I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.
— Jennifer Lopez
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
— Karen Armstrong
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
— Blaise Pascal
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
— Swami Vivekananda
I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.
— Sandrine Bonnaire
Trust wholly in Christ rely altogether on His sufferings beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man. 
— John Wycliffe
I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.
— Do Won Chang
I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
— Francis Collins
Unity in faith is theocracy unity in politics is fascism. 
— Maajid Nawaz
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
— Michelangelo
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.
— George Muller
I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we don't have hope and faith, we have nothing.
— Craig Sager
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. 
— Anton Chekhov
No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. 
— Elie Wiesel
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
— Kailash Satyarthi
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
— Emily Bronte
A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.
— Margaret D. Nadauld
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
— Elizabeth I
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
— Barbara Smith
Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.
— Martina McBride
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
— David Ben-Gurion
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
— Ben Stein
My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
— Dalai Lama
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
— Ellen G. White
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. 
— Aleister Crowley
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
— Louisa May Alcott
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
— Thomas S. Monson
The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.
— Coretta Scott King
The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake.
— Maysoon Zayid
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
— John Calvin
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
— John Lewis
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
— Leo Tolstoy
The future is as bright as your faith.
— Thomas S. Monson
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
— Pope Francis
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
— George Sand
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them. 
— Mahalia Jackson
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
— David A. Bednar
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
— T. B. Joshua
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. 
— Leonard Cohen
A library implies an act of faith.
— Victor Hugo
Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.
— Kris Carr
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
— Richard Rohr
Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.
— Robert Baden-Powell
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
— Geoffrey Canada
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith. 
— Paul Tillich
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
— Martin Luther
Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off.
— Peter Heller
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
— Thomas S. Monson
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
— Michelangelo
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.
— Garth Brooks
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
— Joe Rogan
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.
— Francis Collins
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
There's a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team.
— Jason Statham
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
— J. William Fulbright
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
— Thomas Paine
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
— William Shakespeare
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
— Paula Abdul
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
— Bruce Springsteen
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
— Ronald Reagan
We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.
— Kirk Cameron
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
— Paul Tillich
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
— Jean Rostand
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
— Marquis de Sade
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
— Charles Spurgeon
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
— Mark Batterson
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
— Dan Brown
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.
— William Wilberforce
Let no rank puff up anyone for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world. 
— Ignatius of Antioch
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
I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.
— Adoniram Judson
People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.
— Tim Tebow
Working with Roshni gives me lot of confidence. When I started SSN - in 1994, after a windfall gain from HCL-HP then - I was OK to do it alone. My brother, who was supposed to head it, passed away. We had a governing council to run it. That was a leap of faith, and we didn't know where we will get.
— Shiv Nadar
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
— Amy Grant
God always takes the simplest way.
— Albert Einstein
Reason is the enemy of faith.
— Martin Luther
The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.
— Tullian Tchividjian
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
— Steve Jobs
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.
— Max Lucado
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.
— James E. Faust
I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.
— Sharon Salzberg
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
— Dwight L. Moody
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
— Franz Liszt
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
— Charles Stanley
I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
— Whittaker Chambers
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
— James McGreevey
By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.
— Cass Sunstein
Non-violence is the article of faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.
— Joe Garcia
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
— Roy L. Smith
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
— Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.
— Sean Bean
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
— Benjamin Franklin
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
— Thomas Carlyle
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
— Ray Comfort
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.
— Henry B. Eyring
Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.
— Adoniram Judson
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
— John Muir
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New. 
— Benjamin Whichcote
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
— Blaise Pascal
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
— Khalil Gibran
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
— Paul Brunton
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
— Laurence Sterne
Have faith in God God has faith in you. 
— Edwin Louis Cole
He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
— Charles Stanley
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
— Stephen Samuel Wise
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
— Origen
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
— Clara Barton
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
— Martha Graham
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
— Henry Miller
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
— Chester W. Nimitz
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
— Yo-Yo Ma
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
— Christopher Hitchens
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
— Andrew Thomas
There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
— Fergie
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
— Philip Yancey
I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.
— Alfonso Cuaron
I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.
— Vladimir Putin
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.
— James E. Faust
We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.
— Meir Soloveichik
There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.
— Maria Montessori
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
— Sophia Loren
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
— Bruce Barton
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
— Henry David Thoreau
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
— Francis Beaumont
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
— Abraham Kuyper
I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.
— Jane Grey
Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
— Joe Bob Briggs
You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.
— Stephen Collins
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
— William Ames
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
— Denzel Washington
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
— Bradley Whitford
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
— Douglas MacArthur
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
— Marquis de Sade
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
— Flannery O'Connor
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
— Anton Chekhov
My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.
— Allyson Felix
I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.
— Selma Blair
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
— Jon Meacham
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
— Bear Grylls
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
— Bear Grylls
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
— Ravi Zacharias
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
— Ellen G. White
The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
— Ellen G. White
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
— Amity Shlaes
I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.
— Kevin Durant
I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.
— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
— Andrea Bocelli
No matter what we face, put your total faith in God, and in time - not our time, but His time - He'll bring us through.
— Lex Luger
When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
— Robert Smith
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith this is my joy. 
— Pope Benedict XVI
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
— Saint Teresa of Avila
I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
— Taylor Swift
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.
— Chiang Kai-shek
We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.
— John Wycliffe
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.
— Paulo Coelho
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.
— Robert H. Schuller
One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.
— Peter Jackson
Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.
— Charles Spurgeon
I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The United States is a pluralistic society. To protect that pluralism and the rights of all Americans, of whatever faith they may practice, religious-liberty laws are good policy. Liberals committed to tolerance should embrace them.
— Edwin Meese
My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.
— Tim Kaine
Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to feed our nation. Where our coal miners and oil field workers produce the energy that powers America's homes and businesses, and where our families are guided by faith, know the value of hard work, and deeply love our land.
— Liz Cheney
We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways.
— Sylvia Plath
I have faith in the judicial system.
— Clarence Clemons
When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.
— Bob Beckel
I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.
— Saint Patrick
Faith Hill is a big role model.
— Taylor Swift
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
— Eric Schlosser