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

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
John Piper

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
Denzel Washington

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard

Fear clogs; faith liberates.
Elbert Hubbard

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. Wilson

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
Dorothy Day

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
Dorothy Day

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
Dorothy Day

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
Cat Stevens