The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence as opposed to tradition authority revelation or faith they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Faith must trample under foot all reason sense and understanding.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us as a society in that clearness which it might have been had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that life will never make sense.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Testing leads to failure and failure leads to understanding.

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize without prejudice with the peoples of East Asia.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt abandonment disappointment longing failure and shame where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

In a crowded marketplace fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace not standing out is the same as being invisible.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country he would have escaped.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

As long as the G.O.P. led by its increasingly visible women continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests the gender gap won't go away.