All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.”

“No matter how much you’ve sinned, no matter how much you’ve stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you’ve got from God, don’t give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.”

“There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”

“Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.”

“There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.” -Socrates

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

The White God is coming northward; him will I not meet; the old gods are strong no longer;—they sleep, they sit half shadow- high;—with them will we strive!

“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

“It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you’ve got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not yet a winner.”

One hundred years from now, the people who come after us, for whom our lives are showing the way--will they think of us kindly? Will they remember us with a kind word? I wish to God I could think so.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!" (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)

“Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” 

Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.” 

For if we lose that faith - if we dismiss it as silly or naïve; if we divorce it from the decisions that we make on issues of war and peace - then we lose what is best about humanity. We lose our sense of possibility. We lose our moral compass.” 

“We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.” 

“When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.”