Hope Quotes

"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."

"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life."

"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy."

"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."

"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."

"The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior."

"At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see."

"Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves."

"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it."

"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition."

"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."

"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."

"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."

"Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life."

"No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life."

"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."

"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."

"You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt."