Faith Quotes
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
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“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
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“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
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“When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”
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“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”
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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
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“If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.”
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“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.”
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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
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“In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.”
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“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”
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“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
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“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”
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“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”
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“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
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“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”
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“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
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“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”
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“I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.”
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“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
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“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
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“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”
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“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.”
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“Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.”
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“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”
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“We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.”
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“God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.”
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“You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”
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“Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.”
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“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”
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“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
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“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.”
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“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
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“God always takes the simplest way.”
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“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.”
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“Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.”
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“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
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“The principle part of faith is patience.”
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“That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”
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“Have faith in God; God has faith in you.”
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“Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.”
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“Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”
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“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”
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“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
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“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”
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“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”
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“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
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“I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.”
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“It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.”
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“Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.”
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“All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.”
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“To me faith means not worrying.”
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“God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.”
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“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.”
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“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
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“Pray, and let God worry.”
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“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
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“Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.”
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“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.”
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“He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.”
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“True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.”
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“Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.”
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“You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.”
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“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”
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“I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.”
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“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
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“No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.”
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“Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.”
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“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”
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“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”
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“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
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“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.”
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“The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.”
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“Man, I just feel blessed… I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.”
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“What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.”
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“Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.”
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“Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.”
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“Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”
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“Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.”
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“God never made a promise that was too good to be true.”
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“Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.”
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“Vision looks upward and becomes faith.”
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“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
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“Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.”
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“We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.”
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“Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.”
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“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”
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“God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.”
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“Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.”
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
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“God enters by a private door into every individual.”
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“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
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“Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.”
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“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
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“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.”
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“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”
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“Each one prays to God according to his own light.”
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“Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.”
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“We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.”
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“God continues to work miracles in my life.”
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“Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.”
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“Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.”
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“The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.”
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“I live and love in God's peculiar light.”
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“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.”
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“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”
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“What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?”
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“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”
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“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
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“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.”
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“We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.”
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“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
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“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.”
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“I hold that religion and faith are two different things.”
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“Faith is not contrary to reason.”
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“Faith is a state of openness or trust.”
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“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”
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“If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.”
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“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”
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“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”
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“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
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“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”
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“May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.”
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“He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.”
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“In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.”
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“Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us - even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.”
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“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.”
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“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.”
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“I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.”
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“God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”
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“Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.”
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“As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.”
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“Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.”
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“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”
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“It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.”
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“Faith is reason grown courageous.”
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“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
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“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.”
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“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”
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“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.”
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“I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.”
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“It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.”
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“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
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“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
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“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”
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“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”
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“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”
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“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
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“It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.”
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“My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.”
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“Just dream big. Go for it. There's nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don't let people put you down.”
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“It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.”
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“With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”
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“I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”
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“I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.”
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“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.”
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“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.”
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“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.”
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“We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.”
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“Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.”
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“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.”
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“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
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“Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.”
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
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“I'm originally from Victorville, California, I grew up there. You know, it was a journey, because in Victorville, you know, it's tough out there. It's not like, the easiest place to grow up, so I had just faith in God that if I keep working hard, I could make a way for myself, so my faith in God is something I need, it's essential.”
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“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
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“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
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“Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.”
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“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
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“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
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“Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.”
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“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”
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“Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.”
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“It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”
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“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.”
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“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.”
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“There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.”
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“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”
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“Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.”
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“I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.”
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“The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.”
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“I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?”
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“Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.”
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“Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.”
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“We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.”
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“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”
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“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”
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“God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.”
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“It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.”
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“He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!”
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“There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.”
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“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.”
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“There's a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team.”
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“I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret.”
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“Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.”
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“True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.”
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“Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.”
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“Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.”
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“The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.”
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“Pray in faith.”
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“I am not disturbed by criticism or insults. It's all about having faith in yourself.”
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“God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.”
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“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
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“When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.”
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“I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.”
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“Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!”
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“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'”
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“Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.”
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“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
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“Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.”
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“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
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“I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.”
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“Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.”
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“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”
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“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
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“For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.”
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“The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.”
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“There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.”
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“With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself. After I received a diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia at the age of 22, I put my faith in medicine.”
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“Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.”
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“Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.”
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“Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.”
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“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”
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“If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.”
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“If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.”
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“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.”
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“I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.”
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“I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I've grown into my own man, I don't attach myself to a religion - 100 per cent, I have faith. Then it's locking into what suits me.”
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“Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.”
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
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“Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”
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“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”
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“Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'”
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“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”
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“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.”
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“The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.”
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“Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.”
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“A library implies an act of faith.”
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“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
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“We must confront any situation, however difficult it may be, with courage, faith, serenity, confidence and a lot of mental strength.”
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“I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.”
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“I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.”
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“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
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“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
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“Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen… Their faith is their passport.”
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“The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.”
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“True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.”
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“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
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“We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life.”
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“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”
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“Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.”
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“Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.”
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“Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.”
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“If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.”
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“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”
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“Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.”
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“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”
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“When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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“To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.”
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“There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.”
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“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.”
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“I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.”
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“When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.”
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“Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.”
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“I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.”
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“Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.”
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“Obedience is the fruit of faith.”
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“The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.”
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“Faith is in the eye of the beholder.”
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“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
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“Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.”
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“The power of prayer and faith in God is something that has guided so many of us in good times and bad.”
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“Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.”
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“You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.”
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“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”
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“There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.”
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“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
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“Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they've woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.”
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“Everyone - regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age - should be able to fulfil their potential and succeed.”
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“We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.”
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“No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.”
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“The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.”
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“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”
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“We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.”
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“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”
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“Faith is like a kernel of wheat.”
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“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
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“There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.”
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“To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”
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“If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.”
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“Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.”
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“I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.”
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“Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.”
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“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.”
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“My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.”
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“A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.”
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“Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.”
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“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”
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“As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!”
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“If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith.”
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“It's hard sometimes - to shake yourself off, say out loud the things you dream of - but taking that chance, that leap of faith, that bravery will always pay off.”
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“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.”
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“Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.”
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“People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.”
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“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.”
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“Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.”
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“My faith is in God. If it's a little statue of Buddha or whatever works for you, brilliant.”
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“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.”
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“Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.”
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“Don't let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God.”
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“Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.”
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“We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.”
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“What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?”
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“Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight.”
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“What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?”
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“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
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“There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.”
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“I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.”
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“Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Cleveland Browns stuck their neck out and risked taking me and put their faith and belief in me, and I won't let them down.”
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“The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.”
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“Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.”
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“I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.”
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“Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.”
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“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”
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“I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.”
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“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”
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“If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.”
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“I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.”
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“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
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“Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.”
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“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”
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“Faith is never identical with piety.”
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“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
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“I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.”
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“Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.”
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“I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.”
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“There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live the best lives possible - knowing that there is a higher being who loves us and will never leave us. Through the many struggles in my life, my faith is sometimes the only thing I have to hold onto. God was my only friend.”
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“If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.”
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“When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.”
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“Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!”
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“I had lost faith in biography.”
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“Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.”
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“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.”
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“I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend.”
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“People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.”
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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
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“I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.”
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“I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it's not anybody's damn business how we talk.”
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“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
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“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.”
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“Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.”
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“Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.”
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“Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.”
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“The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we… bear witness that there is no God but God.”
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“Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.”
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“It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
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“The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.”
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“If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.”
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“For goalkeepers, confidence comes from games and minutes. So whenever someone gives you an opportunity or shows faith in you, it always gives you a boost.”
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“I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.”
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“There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.”
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“For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.”
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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”
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“I'm a walking testimony, a product of all the people in my life and my faith.”
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“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.”
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“The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.”
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“Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.”
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“Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”
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“I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.”
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“The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?”
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“If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.”
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“I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.”
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“Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to feed our nation. Where our coal miners and oil field workers produce the energy that powers America's homes and businesses, and where our families are guided by faith, know the value of hard work, and deeply love our land.”
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“My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.”
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“My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.”
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“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.”
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“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”
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“In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.”
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“And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.”
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“My husband and I have been married for 15 years. He is a priest in the Church of Sweden. I have a faith, but it's not so formal. We made our peace with that.”
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“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.”
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“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!”
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“I always had faith in my charisma.”
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“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.”
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“It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.”
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“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.”
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“I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.”
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“I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.”
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“The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.”
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“Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.”
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“It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.”
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“Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?”
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“There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.”
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“As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.”
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“We - what we need is a dialogue among civilizations. And we need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.”
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“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
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“Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.”
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“Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.”
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“Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.”
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“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.”
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“With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.”
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“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
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“Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.”
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“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
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“You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.”
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“My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.”
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“God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.”
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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
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“It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.”
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“Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.”
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“Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.”
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“Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.”
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“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.”
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“For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social - as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message.”
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“I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.”
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“If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.”
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“Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.”
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“I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.”
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“America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.”
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“You just have to have a simple faith.”
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“Everyone's got to have a bit of faith.”
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“Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.”
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“Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.”
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“I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.”
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“I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.”
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“In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.”
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“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”
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“The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.”
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“The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.”
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“Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.”
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“The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.”
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“I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.”
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“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
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“Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.”
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“I am a Christian. I have deep faith… They thought they canceled Jesus, but you can't cancel God.”
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“It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.”
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“During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.”
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“I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.”
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“We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.”
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“I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.”
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“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
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“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
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“The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.”
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“My faith keeps me strong.”
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“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”
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“I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling.”
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“Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.”
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“My brother and I have converted to Christianity, and my other brother and sister are still Sikh. So for me, it's not something that I ever want to be judgmental on. I know my parents are two people of a very strong faith. I respect all that they've done in raising their four kids and in the opportunities that they've given us.”
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“The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.”
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“With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.”
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“You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.”
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“I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we don't have hope and faith, we have nothing.”
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“May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?”
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“My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.”
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“There's always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There's evil in all of us. It's just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.”
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“A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.”
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“You must never give up and have faith in yourself.”
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“I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.”
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“Poland is ready to admit every refugee who arrives in Poland, fleeing the war in the Middle East, no matter their faith or economic status, provided that they comply with our legal regulations and want to stay in our country.”
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“Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.”
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“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
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“The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.”
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“Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”
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“The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.”
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“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”
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“Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.”
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“Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.”
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“The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.”
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“All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.”
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“I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.”
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“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
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“Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.”
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“Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.”
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“Faith and hard work have been my mirror.”
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“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”
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“Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.”
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“Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.”
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“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
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“I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.”
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“Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.”
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“There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To rescind is a concept from the days of the Inquisition. Our forefathers were burned at the stake and would not rescind their faith.”
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“I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.”
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“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”
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“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.”
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“I talk about my faith. I talk about positive things that I've dealt with that have taught me things, and I talk about negative things that I'm dealing with.”
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“Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?”
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“It's attractive when girls have faith. That is a big thing for me.”
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“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.”
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“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”
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“A vision is like an oasis in a desert. You can't have it all the time, as you need to keep on continuing your journey through the desert of life experiences, full of faith trials… I am not so concerned about waiting for a vision to appear because I know it will come to me when I least expect it… I still do have visions that inspire my work.”
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“The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.”
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“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”
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“Have faith in your own thoughts.”
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“No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.”
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“I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by… worried… about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.”
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“Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.”
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“That's what I love about my faith and Christianity. It's the polar opposite of darn near everything I experienced in the wrestling business. I still love the business, and I'm thankful for everything that it's provided, but the idea that it deals in the truth is the furthest thing from reality.”
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“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”
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“I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.”
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“I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.”
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“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.”
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“Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.”
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“Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.”
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“We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.”
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“If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.”
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“Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.”
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“The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.”
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“One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.”
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“It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.”
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“It just comes from my faith as a Christian, to not just do a job, collect a check and go home.”
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“Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.”
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“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”
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“You actually need to go somewhere and vote and make sure you don't have corrupt police. But there's a faith in technology as the savior, as the new Messiah, and that's definitely not the case.”
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“I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas… raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.”
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“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India… has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.”
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“We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.”
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“To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.”
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“Have a little faith. Don't give up.”
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“We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him. We will come to know His purposes for the people we serve for Him. Even when they do not accept our offer to serve them, we will feel His appreciation if we persist.”
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“What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.”
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“I've been very blessed as far as my faith sustaining me because it's not like I haven't been challenged and I haven't been tested and disappointed. But my faith does really bind me and keep me.”
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“That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.”
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“Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'”
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“Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.”
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“At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.”
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“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”
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“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
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“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”
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“I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.”
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“I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.”
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“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.”
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“The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.”
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“I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts… He gave me courage and faith in myself.”
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“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?”
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“Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.”
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“Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.”
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“Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.”
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“For far too long, victims' rights have been discussed only in the context of sentencing. Sentencing is very important, but the debate obscures something much more fundamental: most victims have so little faith in our criminal justice system that they do not access it at all.”
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“Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.”
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“The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.”
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“I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.”
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“The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.”
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“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”
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“When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.”
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“Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!”
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“Push yourself, always have faith and believe in yourself.”
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“I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.' I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.”
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“Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK… It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.”
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“You can find yourself doubting yourself. But that's when you need to keep faith and realise everything is going to be okay. You work hard in training and keep doing the things you're good at.”
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“Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.”
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“There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.”
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“Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.”
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“Faith, family, and fitness - that's the order I try to keep things in.”
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“Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.”
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“People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.”
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“The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.”
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“I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.”
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“Guys like Jack Lanza, Pat Patterson, Bruce Pritchard, Tom Pritchard - those guys all helped me get a tryout. And I'd never been in the ring, so they went on a lot of faith and signed me and thought that they could help mold me into a WWE superstar. And now I'm glad they did, because that was a big turning point in my life.”
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“Faith is the heroism of the intellect.”
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“Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.”
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“I have a strong spiritual life. I can't say that I have faith that Jesus is my Savior, but I look at Jesus in the same way that I look at, you know, Mohammed. He was giving everyone the goods. So was Gandhi.”
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“My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.”
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“We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.”
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“I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.”
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“Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.”
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“China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.”
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“My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.”
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“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.”
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“We had a motto in my school: 'Men for Others.' And it was there that my faith became something vital. My north star for orienting my life. And when I left high school, I knew that I wanted to battle for social justice.”
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“It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else - on the law.”
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“If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.”
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“Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.”
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“I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.”
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“Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.”
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“I loved WWE , but in the end, I was unhappy. It was just like planning an escape from a maximum security prison. I'd released a list of potential opponents online, so when the 90-day no-compete clause was up, I had matches booked on good faith. I thought about the follow-up.”
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“Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.”
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“I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.”
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“In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.”
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“No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!”
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“Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.”
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“Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.”
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“I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.”
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“I had my battles. I had my times of just being upset and God would show me, 'Hey, I'm right here, I'll walk you through this and it doesn't make sense now but just trust me.' That's where faith come in - trust.”
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“The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.”
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“I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization. It's an organization of men - it's not about faith.”
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“The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.”
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“Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.”
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“The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.”
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“Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.”
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“I enjoy life so much I don't want it to end, and dying does worry me. If you've got faith, you believe that you're going to go to a magic land, but unfortunately, I don't have faith.”
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“I needed God. I needed to trust in what my faith was.”
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“Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.”
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“If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.”
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“Whenever I ask myself what blackness means to me, I am struck by the parallels that exist between my predicament and that of many Western Jews, who struggle with questions of assimilation at a time when marrying outside the faith is common.”
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“A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.”
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“Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.”
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“Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.”
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“What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.”
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“Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.”
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“If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.”
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“The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.”
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“Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.”
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“Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.”
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“It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'”
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“An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.”
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“Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.”
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“I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.”
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“A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.”
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“With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.”
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“The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.”
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“The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.”
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“Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.”
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“From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.”
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“For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.”
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“Just as my search for my mother had in some ways shaped my life, her faith that I was alive had shaped hers. She couldn't search, but she did the next best thing: She stayed still.”
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“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.”
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“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
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“Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.”
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“It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.”
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“Do what you love at all costs and maintain your faith in God. Nothing we have is of our own strength so as long as we remember where we came from, it will inform us where we are going.”
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“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”
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“We believe in equal respect for all faiths.”
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“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”
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“Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.”
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“When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology… Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.”
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“A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.”
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“Someday I want to really talk about religion and blind faith. I explored astrologers, palmistry etcetra at length till I believed it was a scam. Even in '3 Idiots' I take a dig at them.”
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“In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.”
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“Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.”
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“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
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“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
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“When a temple catches fire, irrespective of their faith, everyone works to douse the flames. Similarly, all parties worked against the forces that imposed Emergency.”
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“We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.”
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“Doubts may happen. But if you surround yourself with like-minded people who believe in you and who you believe in, and you have faith, all will be well.”
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“Faith gave me the belief that there was somebody looking out for me, that there was a hopeful future on the other side of all the things I was going through.”
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“Faith, family and then football. Those are my priorities now.”
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“All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.”
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“All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.”
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“I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.”
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“Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.”
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“The agricultural working people should be imbued with a thoroughgoing faith in socialism and steadfast anti-imperialist and class consciousness so that they can regard our style of socialism as their life and soul, love it ardently, and fight staunchly against the imperialists' moves for ideological and cultural infiltration.”
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“I've faith in God.”
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“My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.”
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“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.”
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“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
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“I have faith in my wrestling, faith in my grappling, and faith in my striking.”
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“You are not supposed to convert anybody, that's God's job. But at the same time, you can be His disciple and live for Him and when people ask you why are you living for Him, you can show them why and profess your faith.”
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“Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.”
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“Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.”
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“Becoming a monk was a hard decision. Leaving being a monk was harder, but it's given me so much faith in my ability to transition, and that what I learned as a monk can still serve me.”
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“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
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“I have always had complete faith in the Almighty. But there are times when I question His actions. I do that very rarely, because I am an absolute believer in destiny.”
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“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.”
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“Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.”
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“Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.”
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“I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.”
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“We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.”
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“Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.”
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“I believe that it is important to have faith in a cosmic, universal power and identify the reasons for one's existence.”
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“Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.”
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“Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.”
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“Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.”
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“We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.”
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“Many people told me not to call the book '… Refugee' because Aussies won't buy it. I told them I have faith in Aussies, and it makes me a proud Aussie to see that the title hasn't hurt the book.”
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“In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.”
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“Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'”
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“I'm very much interested in having people take herbs that make them feel good because if they do that, they'll have an experience, and they'll say, 'Oh, this is real.' This is something you take, and you don't have to go on faith, but you can feel the difference.”
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“No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.”
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“All the coaches I've had have been important for me, whether it was Joel Muller at Metz, Rolland Courbis at Marseille, Manuel Pellegrini at Villarreal or Roger Lemerre with Les Bleus. All of them were important along the way, and each of them had faith in me and let me play.”
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“Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?”
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“I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.”
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“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.”
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“I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.”
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“Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.”
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“I have great respect for the LDS church - their commitment to family and taking care of each other is exemplary. I just don't believe the tenets of the faith that they believe.”
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“Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.”
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“We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.”
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“I have never lost my faith in God.”
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“I actually don't have a lot of faith in comedy.”
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“Oceans, in their beauty and mystery, unite human beings whatever their situation, nationality, or faith.”
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“Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.”
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“Being an outspoken Christian in the music industry means always feeling out of place. It's like whatever you have accomplished is less credible because of your faith.”
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“God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.”
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“We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.”
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“Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.”
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“I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.”
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“The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches.”
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“I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.”
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“Any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus Christ.”
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“I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.”
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“From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.”
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“The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.”
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“In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.”
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“Faith is about offering emotional and practical help to your neighbours while expecting nothing in return: you do so simply because you think it's needed.”
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“I couldn't change by myself. I needed my faith and belief in Christ to give me the strength to break free and allow people to help me to change.”
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“I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.”
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“I cannot recite Hanuman chalisa at home and wear a skull cap outside just to attract votes. It is my responsibility that, without losing my identity, I must ensure a peaceful environment for people of all faiths so that they can follow their beliefs.”
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“Faith Hill is a big role model.”
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“This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.”
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“My faith is a huge part of my life. I don't force it into my music, but it's in my experiences, so it comes through. People pick up on what they want to pick up on, but any way strangers connect to a song that I wrote is awesome.”
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“It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.”
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“Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.”
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“In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community.”
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“Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.”
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“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”
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“Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.”
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“The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.”
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“The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.”
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“For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.”
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“It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.”
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“Faith is personal if it's to be real.”
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“I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.”
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“I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'”
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“I have been fortunate to have worked with immensely talented writers and directors who have had faith in me. There's been very little hard work but a lot of learning. I have learnt from each of my characters, and I think that's rather amazing.”
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“I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.”
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“I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.”
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“We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.”
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“For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.”
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“A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.”
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“Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.”
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“I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.”
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“Faith is a continuation of reason.”
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“When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.”
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“Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.”
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“Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.”
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“We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts.”
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“I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.”
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“My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.”
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“I think some people have blind faith in American institutions without knowing a whole lot about them and think they will stand up to Trump and are indestructible.”
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“I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.”
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“Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.”
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“Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.”
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“The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake.”
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“You have to have faith in people.”
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“I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.”
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“Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.”
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“Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.”
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“Football is about motivation, faith.”
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“And when I'm president, I can tell you this, my faith will not just influence the way I'll govern as president, it will influence the way I live my life. Because in the end, my goal is not simply to live on this earth for 80 years, but to live an eternity with my creator. And I will always allow my faith to influence everything I do.”
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“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”
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“Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.”
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“At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.”
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“The future is as bright as your faith.”
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“I always had faith in my creative capacity.”
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“We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.”
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“In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.”
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“People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.”
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“I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot.”
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“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”
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“You have to have faith in yourself, keep believing and sticking to the game plan, and hope when the chance does come, one of you will put it away.”
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“I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.”
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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.”
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“Reason is the enemy of faith.”
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“There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.”
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“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.”
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“I'm a strong man of faith.”
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“The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It's an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.”
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“The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.”
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“Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.”
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“Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.”
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“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”
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“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
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“Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.”
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“Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.”
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“At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.”
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“There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.”
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“My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.”
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“I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?”
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“Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.”
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“The God of Islam is not the same God of the Judaeo-Christian faith. The God that we worship in Christianity is a God that has a Son. To Islam, that is blasphemy, to say that God has a son. Therefore, they do not worship the God that we worship.”
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“The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.”
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“Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.”
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“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.”
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“I don't have much faith… in the government police.”
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“My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith.”
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“Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of their faith.”
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“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”
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“The audience is sacrosanct for me. They put faith in me, trust me and I will try my best to live up to that.”
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“Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.”
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“My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.”
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“You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.”
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“I'm a man of faith.”
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“Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.”
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“Every day is different. You always have to keep the faith and the ambition to realise your dreams.”
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“Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.”
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“My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.”
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“It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.”
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“I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.”
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“I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.”
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“The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.”
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“Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.”
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“In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?”
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“A lot of people devote their lives to me and what I do. It means the most to be able to repay that faith.”
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“I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.”
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“The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.”
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“Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.”
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“Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.”
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“The Mets represent life and the reality of life, the winning, the losing, the hope, the faith. You stick with them through the ups and the downs, the heartbreaks. Every year you always have hope. You always have faith, even when they break your heart. You get mad, but you stick with them. They're humbling.”
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“Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.”
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“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?”
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“Within the Green Party, we have candidates from every faith and religion and a lot who don't believe there is a God and wonder why anyone would be so foolish as to think so. And everyone is respected and welcome.”
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“You can do nothing, or you can take on the challenge of taking on the adversity. You have got to have faith. You have to have faith in whatever you believe in.”
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“With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.”
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“Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.”
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“I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.”
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“Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.”
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“He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.”
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“Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.”
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“I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.”
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“What is important is the kind of faith you have within yourself.”
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“And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.”
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“When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.”
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“I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.”
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“The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.”
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“Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.”
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“What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.”
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“Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.”
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“You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.”
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“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.”
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“I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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“U.S. leadership has been rooted not just in our own belief in American exceptionalism but in the faith of others around the world. By so wantonly discarding that principle, the Trump Administration has done incredible harm to the families they have separated through the state-sponsored child abuse that has been carried out in our name.”
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“It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.”
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“If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.”
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“I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy.”
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“It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.”
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“In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.”
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“My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.”
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“Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.”
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“Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.”
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“Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.”
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“I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.”
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“I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.”
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“You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.”
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“You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?”
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“My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.”
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“I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.”
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“Throughout life, you keep exercising your faith, so when you get into different challenges, you decide, 'this time I'm going to trust God,' and God comes through for you. That's how it kept building and building for me, so I can be confident and go into places knowing that God's got me. That's why a lot of times I can be fearless.”
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“In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.”
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“I was probably about 22 years old when I recommitted myself to get off the fence and go all in and get serious about my faith. That's really when I experienced God's love and His forgiveness and His true grace.”
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“For every action, there will always be a reaction. Actually, people who do wrong to me or hurt me, something unpleasant surely happens to them. So, I don't have faith in taking revenge.”
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“You gotta have faith. You gotta keep your head up.”
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“I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.”
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“Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.”
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“It's hard to put your faith in youngsters, but Ajax have always done that.”
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“I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?”
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“Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.”
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“Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.”
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“No matter what the outcome is, as long as you pray to Him and be genuine - because He knows when you're genuine and when you're not - and maintain the faith, I think things will turn around for you. I know things will turn around for you. And ultimately, you will always be victorious when it's all said and done.”
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“I am honored to be elected by my peers to serve on the Board of the House Freedom Caucus as a freshman member of Congress. These men and women of faith serve with real conviction and are in Congress for the right reasons.”
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“Becoming a Christian allowed me to find peace and become the pitcher I always knew I could be. I'd always had a strong arm; now I finally had a strong faith to match.”
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“Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.”
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“Where I stand comes from my upbringing and my faith: I'm 100 percent pro-life and I believe in traditional marriage.”
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“You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.”
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“And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.”
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“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.”
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“Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.”
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“My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil war. She also taught us that where you come from is very important because that's what makes you who you are. So for me, whatever I've gone through had profoundly shaped me; it has given me strength and unwavering faith.”
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“I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were very accepting of people of all faiths.”
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“Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.”
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“When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.”
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“My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.”
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“I have a vision for what I want wrestling to be, and I was fortunate not just to have the opportunity to show my talents at the right time, and not just to have the right opponents, and not just to have the knowledge that the front office has faith in me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt in the middle of all this.”
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“I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.”
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“My faith and reason tell me that God created the world, and I'm not particularly interested in the details. I'll find out when I meet my Maker.”
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“Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.”
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“When I was negotiating with our foreign allies, I knew I had to do so in good faith, or trust would be broken - and those allies wouldn't be there when we really needed them.”
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“I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.”
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“God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.”
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“Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.”
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“We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.”
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“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
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“There have been albums I've recorded in the past that have had success, and then there have been ones I've had extreme faith in, and they ended up as commercial failures.”
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“Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.”
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“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”
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“If a heartfelt apology on Twitter isn't enough to restore some small semblance of faith in humanity, I don't know what is.”
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“When I was offered 'Abhijaan,' I didn't know any Bengali. But Satyajit Ray insisted, saying my character spoke a mixture of Bhojpuri, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali. I agreed only because he had faith in me.”
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“Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered… the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith… All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.”
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“I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.”
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“We are a nation with a powerful investment in the idea of our own fundamental innocence. Our can-do optimism and ingenuity are based on the faith that we are a decent, open, and generous people. This is our identity.”
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“Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.”
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“We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority.”
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“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.”
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“Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.”
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“Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.”
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“Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.”
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“Sabarimala is a unique place of worship where members of all faiths are free to go. It may be true that RSS and its B team, Congress, may be trying to whip up caste sentiments.”
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“A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.”
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“I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.”
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“Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company. It's an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.”
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“I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.”
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“Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.”
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“We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.”
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“I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!”
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“Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.”
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“I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.”
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“I came from a tradition where souls were a theological reality, not a faith reality. Souls were for saving, not for communing. Souls were for converting and, once they were converted, they were to be left alone. Souls were too mystical, too subjective, too ambiguous, too risky, too… well, you know - New Age-ish.”
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“Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.”
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“A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.”
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“The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.”
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“From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.”
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“The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.”
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“I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.”
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“The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.”
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“Just because it was multiple ligaments, just because of the trauma of the injury, they compared it to like a car accident. I didn't have anybody to follow, there was no timetable. I could get better, I could not get better. You just don't know. People fear what they don't know. I'm in the dark, and everything is just about faith.”
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“My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.”
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“When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.”
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“Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The United States is a pluralistic society. To protect that pluralism and the rights of all Americans, of whatever faith they may practice, religious-liberty laws are good policy. Liberals committed to tolerance should embrace them.”
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“I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.”
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“Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.”
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“I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.”
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“I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.”
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“There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.”
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“Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.”
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“Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.”
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“Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.”
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“To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.”
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“Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.”
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“Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.”
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“I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.”
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“I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.”
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“Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.”
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“Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.”
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“At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.”
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“You can take off a football jersey, but you can never take off your faith. That goes with you everywhere.”
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“Fear clogs; faith liberates.”
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“I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.”
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“When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.”
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“I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.”
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“I know Marco Rubio very well. He's a friend of mine. He's a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and - you know, for whom religion is very important.”
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“We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.”
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“Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.”
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“Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.”
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“I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.”
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“The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has to do with my faith; I am deeply religious. It goes back to my roots, to my mom and my dad.”
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“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
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“Every character that I've chosen has made me evolve as an actor. And I am lucky that my directors have shown so much faith in my abilities.”
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“I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable.”
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“Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.”
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“I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.”
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“We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud of its identity and committed to its faith and traditions. Yet despite these differences, we can be bound together into a broader community.”
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“All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.”
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“I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.”
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“I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths. I love all Australians.”
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“The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.”
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“Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.”
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“I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.”
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“God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.”
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“Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.”
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“The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.”
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“Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.”
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“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.”
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“The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.”
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“Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.”
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“Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.”
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“Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.”
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“I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.”
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“The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost - and who is acting in faith to fulfill the priesthood injunction to 'receive the Holy Ghost.'”
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“There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.”
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“The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.”
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“I have faith, but I'm not the biggest fan of organised religion. There's a lot of hypocrites in church. A lot of hypocrites.”
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“I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.”
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“No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.”
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“Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.”
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“My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.”
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“There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.”
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“Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.”
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“Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.”
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“You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.”
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“The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.”
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“I don't have any faith in the Republican Party. I don't have any faith in the Democrat Party. The only hope for this nation is God.”
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“Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.”
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“You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.”
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“Non-violence is the article of faith.”
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“Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.”
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“Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God's eternal plan, families can be together forever.”
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“My faith is sort of where I got my confidence. And it was the confidence of, 'It's going to be what it's going to be.'”
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“The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.”
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“Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.”
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“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.”
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“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.”
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“All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.”
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“Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it.”
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“If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing. In all conditions, we can choose the right with the guidance of the Spirit. We have the gospel of Jesus Christ to shape and guide our lives if we choose it.”
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“If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.”
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“I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.”
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“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.”
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“Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.”
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“Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.”
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“One of the blessings that comes from paying a full tithing is developing faith to live an even higher law. To live in the celestial kingdom, we must live the law of consecration. There we must be able to feel that all we are and all we have belong to God.”
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“We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.”
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“God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.”