I'll tell you in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler because in our community it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith family hard work responsibility.
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music and certainly no decent choral repertoire without the Catholic faith.
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life I would not have survived without my faith.
I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong you still need people who would support you all the way.
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason to my liberty and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave an instrument of the will and interests of others.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Jews survived all the defeats expulsions persecutions and pogroms the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people even the Holocaust itself because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
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.
For my future I have no concern and as a true philosopher I never would have any for I know not what it may be: as a Christian on the other hand faith must believe without discussion and the stronger it is the more it keeps silent.
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously and I would I think be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.
Act strenuously would appear to be our faith and right thinking will take care of itself.
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.
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
The other day the President said I know you've had some rough times and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused then said would you like a puppy?
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion that we would deny them freedom of religion that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
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?
No lover if he be of good faith and sincere will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.