Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality and physical characteristics warts and all and from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
When you start about family about lineage and ancestry you are talking about every person on earth.
Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.
Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not it's not the end of the world.
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer which is reflected in facial expressions among other things.
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe and old as eternity.
Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God the fallible words of men or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.
Republican values - strong families faith personal responsibility and freedom among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
Well I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God not you and the Church.
When you put your total faith in God no matter what happens to a person who's a true believer if you die you know you're going to heaven to be with God.