Faith Based Quotes - Page 3

• I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

  Denis Hayes

  Optimism, Parental

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Community, Tactics

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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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• I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Texas, Bridges

  "The Bush Presidency: Bush Discusses National Energy Policy". President Bush meeting with Senator Charles Grassley and Congressman Bill Thomas on an energy policy, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2001.

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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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• All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.

  George W. Bush

  Brother, Hate, Inspiration

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• We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Lying, Writing

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• Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Justice, Charity

  Jim Wallis, Bill Moyers (2001). “Faith Works: How Faith-based Organizations are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America”, p.18, Council Oak Books

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• If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental faith experience-then this would be a much greater miracle than the resurrection itself.

  Pinchas Lapide

  Self, Miracle, Deception

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• The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

  Susan Jacoby

  Government, Organization, Social

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• Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Religious, Successful, Government

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• I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and more hopeful for every single citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Hopeful

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• Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

  Irwin Redlener

  Country, Organization, Community

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• This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Art, Book, Roles

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• I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into your head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid for what adults put into your head.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.

  Paul Washer

  Catholic, Different, Variation

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