The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

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.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus things start breaking down they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ the very linchpin of their religion.

Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads round and green these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it or rational argument that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.