The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Religious belief like history itself is a story that is always unfolding always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.
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.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
In religious and in secular affairs the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion if you're a moderate on gun control or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong good or bad with us or against us.
Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Talk unbelief and you will have unbelief but talk faith and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.
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 may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith is the great cop-out the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of even perhaps because of the lack of evidence.
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.