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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I have had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I have been very lucky. I have great faith that I am exactly where I am supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

Have faith in your own thoughts.

Do not be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I am a journalist.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I am still playing places for kids.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women is rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You are faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

I have not lost faith in human nature and I have not decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.