True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God. . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage. And the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution.
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
In each big decision, we'll always make them by faith.
Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives.
I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.
The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.
There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1. 5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.
I'm not afraid to talk about God and it's something I have a faith in. But I feel his presence more in those really profound, quiet moments of solitude. I can't seem to get those as much around here in Nashville, so I go to seek them out. Iceland is probably the closest I ever felt to it. That place did a lot for my soul.
Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person and every circumstance.
Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.
To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.
How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.