John Edwards Quotes

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

My faith is my life. It defines me. My faith doesn’t influence my decisions; it drives them.

My faith guides my life.

I try to act out of faith.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Faith is never identical with piety.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.