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Lack Of Faith Quotes

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
- Muhammad Ali

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.
- Mark Buchanan

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- William James

He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.
- Michael Chabon

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
- Anton Chekhov

exemplar, n.
It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done.
You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.
- David Levithan

But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.
- Michael Coren

The "pass" was a normal-sized key with a wooden block the size of a brick attached to it. This was meant to broadcast the administration's lack of faith in our ability to hold on to small objects.
- Sloane Crosley

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith.
- Paul Goodman

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.
- T F Hodge

Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
- T F Hodge

we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.
- C S Lewis

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
- Rosamund Lupton

Is it a lack of faith to be thinking that we're all going to be slain or captured and sunk into the Hot Lake?" asked one of the four chosen archers.
"Yes," snapped the Carp.
- Garth Nix

I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.
- Marilynne Robinson

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
- Michelle Shocked

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
- Brent Weeks

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