Lost Faith Quotes

• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Anger, Holocaust

  "Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

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• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  "Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.

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• For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

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• The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.

  P. D. James

  Faith, Teaching, People

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.280, Faber & Faber

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• I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!

  Petria Thomas

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Seven out of 10 Americans, they do not like the direction our country is going. Many of our fellow citizens feel alienated and have lost faith in our core institutions. They don't feel heard and they don't feel represented by those in office.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Office, Citizens

  Source: time.com

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• I haven't really lost faith in my work - other than for quite short periods when the work is harder than usual - but I have hit points where I want to quit because cartooning is just too hard, too demanding an art form. Basically, there's nothing to be done about that but to keep going (if you're in the middle of something), or stop for a while and do other things while you wait for your motivation to return.

  Jessica Abel

  Art, Motivation, Waiting

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

  Hillary Clinton

  Greatness, America, Essentials

  "Clinton: Iraq Tactics 'Working. We’re Just Years Too Late...'". Hillary Clinton’s remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Missouri, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2007.

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• The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Hope, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

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• No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Disappointment, War, Loneliness

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, People, Assuming

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?”, p.16, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

  Teri Polo

  Able, Married, Lost

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• With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

  Ron Fournier

  Leadership, Approval Rating, Lost

  "Why Gov. Christie Is Presidential Timber" by Ron Fournier, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2013.

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• The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.

  John Bolton

  Mass Destruction, Iran, Cynical

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• In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.

  Horace Bushnell

  Energy, Firsts, Lost

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 237, 1895.

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• Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

  Ian Mcewan

  Views, Talking, Years

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.99, Random House

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• We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

  Lewis Mumford

  Order, Mind, Principles

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.

  Cliff Stearns

  Faith, Thinking, People

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• Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.

  Pope Francis

  Overcoming, Able, Moments

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• Go home and say to yourself, ‘I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Children, Home, Foolish

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1876). “Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero”, p.32

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• I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

  Joy Davidman

  Progress, Divine Help, World

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• People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, People, Republic

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• I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my faith became fairly abstract. And I lost this belief that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

  Carly Fiorina

  Jesus, Faithful, Belief

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2015.

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• Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Hands

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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