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  • Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. -- Marquis de Sade
  • A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. -- Douglas MacArthur
  • Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. -- Martin Luther
  • We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. -- Ryan White
  • Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational. -- John Rhys-Davies
  • In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools. -- Mark Foley
  • It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. -- Bede Griffiths
  • Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me. -- Ray Comfort
  • My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. -- Tony Blair
  • It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? -- Dwight L. Moody
  • The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people. -- Mark Hatfield
  • I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best. -- Gene Robinson
  • From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding. -- Kenneth R. Miller
  • Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. -- Afrika Bambaataa
  • I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives. -- William Wilberforce
  • What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work. -- Kenneth R. Miller
  • There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp. -- Corbin Bernsen
  • Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life. -- Corbin Bernsen
  • Understanding is the wages of faith. -- Saint Augustine
  • Understanding is the reward of faith. -- Saint Augustine
  • Forgiveness without understanding is like faith without proof. -- Jessica Francis Kane
  • Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. -- Voltaire
  • People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. -- Agnes Repplier
  • The deletion of logic is through....LoveAcceptanceForgiveness Compassion Understanding Faith in the unknownPresent Moment Living Conscious Breathing -- Matthew Donnelly
  • An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith. -- Lloyd C. Douglas
  • Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding -- Tracy Chapman
  • Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. -- Augustine of Hippo
  • With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present. -- Kenneth M. Stampp
  • If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase. -- James E. Faust
  • Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
  • The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart. -- David Lloyd-Jones
  • Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding. -- William Lane Craig
  • The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness. -- Heather Bixler
  • A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class. -- John Conyers
  • We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason! -- Jerry A. Coyne
  • I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ. -- Philemon
  • I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it. -- Rebecca Miller
  • Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ. -- Richard Watson
  • Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. -- Truman Capote
  • God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do. -- Helen Steiner Rice
  • Understanding faith can be like trying to hold onto jello. Just when you think you've got a handful of the stuff, all you really have is the residue all over your sticky hands. -- Jennifer L. Lane
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