If you have abandoned one faith do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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.
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.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness my inner peace.
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
All that I say is examine inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions the for and against. Know why you believe understand what you believe and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Is it faith to understand nothing and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
As a people of faith we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.
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?
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence as opposed to tradition authority revelation or faith they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Faith must trample under foot all reason sense and understanding.
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us as a society in that clearness which it might have been had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that life will never make sense.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Testing leads to failure and failure leads to understanding.
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize without prejudice with the peoples of East Asia.
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt abandonment disappointment longing failure and shame where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own 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.