All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
The enemy is not Islam the great world faith but a perversion of Islam.
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind yet not apart from the world of natural phenomena.
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
In Christ the original image of God is restored by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.
Science we are repeatedly told is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion by contrast is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Through history people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith too.
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.
I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So if we believe in something enough. And we have faith we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.
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.
As a world view Darwinism cannot of course be refuted since Faith is always has been and always will be stronger than facts.
In the spiritual body moreover man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love not only as to the face and the body but also as to the speech and the actions.
I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.
You know this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith is a good notion but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace no less than war requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You and keep doing what you love. Do what you love and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life I'm not a teacher I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.