Faith Based Quotes - Page 2

• We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Army, Compassion

  "Bush pushes 'charitable choice' at Ohio church". www.cnn.com. May 24, 2001.

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• Through my Faith-Based and Community Initiative, my Administration continues to encourage the essential work of faith-based and community organizations. Governments can and should support effective social services, including those provided by religious people and organizations. When government gives that support, it is important that faith-based institutions not be forced to change their religious character.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Humor, Character

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.

  Phil Bredesen

  Numbers, Important, Principles

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• The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.

  Garrison Keillor

  Christian, Party, Golf

  "We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore", These Times, August 26, 2004.

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• See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cutting, Talking, Nuts

  "Sharpton on Jackson's Obama Remarks". "Hannity & Colmes" show, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2008.

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• I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

  Ryan Merriman

  Good Family

  "Actor Ryan Merriman on his latest football film The 5th Quarter". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

  Joseph Silk

  Challenges, Belief, Creeds

  "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

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• We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Army, Compassion

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• I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Community, Tactics

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• Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

  Oswald Chambers

  Talking, Truth Is, Habit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.731, Discovery House

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• Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.

  A.C. Grayling

  Christian, Religious, Voice

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Goal, Community

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• My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

  Jim Butcher

  Childhood, Stuff, Source

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• Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Islands, Rocks, Gold

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• We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also know that they have a large constituency including women and youth; they have outreach and networks and they are credible to their people. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Foals by scaling up the responses of all the communities, do we ignore this large investment in people? Or do we engage in dialogue and in action?

  Thoraya Obaid

  People, Community, Foals

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• In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives.

  George W. Bush

  Life Changing, Humor, Responsibility

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• We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge is a way to get people off drugs and alcohol. Teen Challenge is a faith-based program that changes people's hearts.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Government

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• Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Government, Law

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• Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America's public schools? Yes, let's do - not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu Idea that Earth rests on Chukwa, the giant turtle.

  David Quammen

  Spiritual, School, Intelligent

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• Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

  Martin Rees

  Teacher, People, Lines

  "Martin Rees: Atheists should drop anti-religion campaigns" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2011.

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• Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.

  Dan Buettner

  Exercise, Years, Community

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• Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

  Eugene Rivers

  Scary, Charity, Sin

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• I love having millions of viewers and I want the show to grow. But more than anything I hope it always impacts people's lives with the honest presence of God and that His authentic power is felt by everyone who watches. I hope it gets so important that it will become the first faith based talk show to find success even on secular TV where people so need the message.

  Cynthia Garrett

  People, Important, Honest

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Men, Reason

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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