It's a very different thing religion and faith. Religion is man-made it's man-regulated. And faith you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
If you went to your closet today would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
You know this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith is a good notion but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
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.
A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
A whole lot of us believers of all different religions are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together in both the dark and the light - in other words through life - registering voters as we go and keeping the faith.
Faith is different from proof the latter is human the former is a Gift from God.
People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians they're not all growing in their faith they're not all active but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise diplomacy included which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public hence ultimately of failure.
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care the tie between relationship and responsibility and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world divide and conquer must become define and empower.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself I have failed three times and what happens when he says I am a failure.
I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
When you grow up in a family of languages you develop a kind of casual fluency so that languages though differently colored all seem transparent to experience.