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

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

May it not be that just as we have to have faith in Him God has to have faith in us and considering the history of the human race so far may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature the texts our first attempt at cosmology making sense of where we are in the universe our first attempt at health care believing in faith healing our first attempt at philosophy.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration of feudalism and tribalism.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.