Quotes About Education And Faith

#1. Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.

Marilynne Robinson

#2. The enthusiasm to work hard and endless determination are the two great skills for success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Did you notice there aren't any average kids anymore - only Gifted and Disposable?

Heather Choate Davis

#4. Boldly and confidently, reach out to your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

John H. Johnson

#6. It is impossible for a person who fears Allah to commit terrorist acts because of his faith. Such acts are committed by people who were educated abroad, who received a Darwinist education and who internalized Darwinism, but who later called themselves Muslims.

Harun Yahya

#7. Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.

A.C. Grayling

#8. In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Mark Foley

#9. We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English?

Edward Rutherfurd

#10. In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Russell M. Nelson

#11. The courage to try again is daring spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. With certainty, courage and commitment, the dream will be a reality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.

Napoleon Hill

#14. In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

John Taylor Gatto

#15. They were untouched by modern education, but their government was striving with might and main to procure this inestimable benefit for them; anticlericalism and American bustle would soon free them from belief in miracles and holy likenesses.

Robertson Davies

#16. Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

#17. We came to the world with love and hope
We are the creation of hope, faith and love.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.

Carson McCullers

#19. Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

Jane Smiley

#20. We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

Pat Benatar

#21. Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Let your passion fuel your perseverance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use

Emma Thompson

#24. We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Ryan White

#25. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.

Boyd K. Packer

#26. It is only God who gives strength and wisdom for fulfill the God-given dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.

Jorge Luis Borges

#28. As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Joe Baca

#29. The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

Jonathan Kozol

#30. Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.

Debasish Mridha

#31. No matter what you're going through, have faith and have love.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Hope is the desire to bloom, but faith believes and visualizes the bloom.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Faith in spirituality and love for humanity is purely transcendental.

Debasish Mridha

#34. May you find the grace and willpower to fulfil your dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the president, or Western investment, but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in knowledge and science and the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.

Zhores Alferov

#36. Use your time and your strength for your accomplishments.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Love always trust, always hopes, and always protects.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. Stress comes from fear of the unknown, so have faith and fear will disappear and stress will melt away.

Debasish Mridha

#39. I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Martin Luther

#40. There is an education of the mind
Which all require and parents only start.
But there is training of a nobler kind
And that's the education of the heart.
Lessons that are most difficult to give
Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

Edgar Guest

#41. Spiritual-self consist of a determined soul and indomitable spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. When fear is the disease, faith and confidences are the medicine.

Debasish Mridha

#43. We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#44. When you focus on what you do not have, you will get what you do not have nothing. Focus on love, faith, and prosperity.

Debasish Mridha

#45. Armed with faith, determination and perseverance anyone can achieve there goals. The power of the human mind is the most powerful force in the universe, what we conceive with integrity, hard work, education and a positive spirit we can accomplish.

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