I don't need faith.

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades because elected leaders fail to deliver.

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

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Act strenuously would appear to be our faith and right thinking will take care of itself.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

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.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

In Barack Obama Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

My father who died a few years ago was a good simple very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable without question.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.