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Friedrich Nietzche
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| "?Tis not the dying for a faith that?s so hard, Master Harry?every
man of every nation has done that??tis the living up to it that is
difficult." | |
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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| "A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth
many regrets." | |
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Arthur C. Clarke
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| "A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his
actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for
his actions." | |
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Gordon R. Dickson
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| "Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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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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Emmanuel Teney
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| "But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood,
hugs it to the last." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "Don?t let this get you down. Just remember God will make everything
right and that I?ll see you all again in the hereafter.... Read
"Thanatopsis" by Bryant if you want to know how I am taking this. My faith
in God is complete, so I am unafraid." | |
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William G. Farrow
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| "Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not
see." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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Lillian Smith
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| "Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be
God." | |
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Carter Lindberg
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| "Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way
you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it
can"t be taken on its own merits." | |
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Dan Barker
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| "Faith is a passionate intuition." | |
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William Wordsworth
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| "Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the
unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul
that its adventure will succeed." | |
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Henry van Dyke
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| "Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the
caravan of thinking." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always
destructive." | |
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David S. Muzzey
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| "Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience,
though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not
prevent sin. The will is the source of action." | |
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John Henry Cardinal Newman
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| "Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the
highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe.
By faith we are convinced that our impressions of things without are not
dreams or delusions, but, for us, true representations of our environment.
By faith we are convinced that the signs of permanence, order, progress,
which we observe in nature are true. By faith we are convinced that
fellowship is possible with our fellow man and with God." | |
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Brook Foss Westcott
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| "Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is
still dark." | |
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Proverb
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| "Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence;
faith is daring something regardless of the consequences." | |
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Sherwood Eddy
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| "Faith is putting all your eggs in God"s basket, then counting your
blessings before they hatch." | |
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Ramona C. Carroll
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| "Faith is spiritualized imagination." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Faith is taking the first step even when you don"t see the whole
staircase." | |
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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| "Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the
future." | |
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Robert Collyer
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| "Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still
theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the
prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance." | |
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William James
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| "FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks,
without knowledge, of things without parallel." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental
starch." | |
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Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster
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| "Faithful to the cause of Prohibition ? She hath done what she
could." | |
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Carrie Amelia Nation
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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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B. C. Forbes
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| "He who has in his heart as much faith as a grain of mustard seed
will not enter hell, and he who has in his heart as much pride as a grain
of mustard seed will not enter paradise." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which
to-day are fables to us!" | |
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Michel de Montaigne
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| "How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which
today are fables to us!" | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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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. 1959" | |
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Fidel Castro
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| "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
up where I intended to be." | |
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Douglas Noel Adams
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| "I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear
is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are
sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and
confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my
being is gasping for breath ? these are not my native air. But in faith
and confidence I breath freely ? these are my native air." | |
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Eli Stanley Jones
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| "If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of
skepticism." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "If it wasn"t for faith, there would be no living in this world; we
couldn"t even eat hash with any safety." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "In the Affairs of the World Men are saved, not by Faith but by the
Want of it." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast,
and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at
length manifested." | |
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Richard Hurd
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| "It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is
hidden, in the Spring when it is gone." | |
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Roy R. Gilson
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| "My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with
roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the
ability to raise the grain." | |
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Brigham Young
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| "Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must
be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in
any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we
are saved by love." | |
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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| "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men...." | |
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John Dalberg, Lord Acton
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| "Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right, By these wee reach
divinity...." | |
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John Donne
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| "Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a
pick." | |
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Unknown
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| "Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I
consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!" | |
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| "The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly
right and doing a thing exactly right." | |
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Edward Simmons
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| "The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly
right and doing it exactly right." | |
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Edward C. Simmons
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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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James Russell Lowell
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| "The principal part of faith is patience." | |
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George Macdonald
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| "The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new
way, varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith
is not an acceptance of general, abstract truths, but an answer and a
decision at a certain time and in a very certain place." | |
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J. L. Hromadka
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| "There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can
move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances
will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force.
Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear
forever." | |
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Norman Vincent Peale
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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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Henry David Thoreau
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| "To me faith means not worrying." | |
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John Dewey
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| "We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the
medical profession." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "When you encounter a situation that causes you to doubt your ability
to achieve your desire, request the Lord?s help in maintaining an attitude
of faith." | |
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Grant Von Harrison
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| "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are
possible." | |
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The Bible
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| "Without faith a man can do nothing, with it all things are
possible." | |
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Sir William Osler
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| "You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without
it." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today.
You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count
your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and
with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other
blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for
each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance
will come. And so will gratitude. You could try the same thing as you
write an entry in your book of remembrance. The Holy Ghost has helped with
that since the beginning of time. You remember in the record of Moses it
says: "And a book of remembrance was kept, in the which was recorded, in
the language of Adam, for it was given unto as many as called upon God to
write by the spirit of inspiration." (Moses 6:5.)" | |
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Henry B. Eyring
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