faith
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘faith’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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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.” -Elie Wiesel
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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.” -Ernest Holmes
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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.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.” -Anton Chekhov
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“We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.” -Theodore C. Sorensen
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“A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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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.” -Martina McBride
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“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” -William Penn
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“What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.” -Samuel Butler
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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.” -John D. Rockefeller
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“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.” -Ben Stein
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“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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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?” -Dwight L. Moody
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“Faith is a state of openness or trust.” -Alan Watts
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“Duty cannot exist without faith.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.” -George McGovern
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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.” -Ramakrishna
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“The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.” -William Jennings Bryan
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“I’m grateful to God for His bountiful gifts… He gave me courage and faith in myself.” -Loretta Young
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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.” -Alfred A. Montapert
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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.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.” -Albert Schweitzer
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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.” -Dan Millman
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“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.” -Helen Rowland
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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.” -Harry S. Truman
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“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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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.” -Martha Graham
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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.” -William James
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“Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.” -Mitt Romney
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.” -H. L. Mencken
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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.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.” -Erich Fromm
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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.” -Aleister Crowley
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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.” -George Eliot
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“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.” -Charles Wesley
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“To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.” -Joseph Addison
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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.’” -Max Planck
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“Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.” -Joel Osteen
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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.” -Thomas Paine
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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.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.” -William Ellery Channing
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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.” -T. S. Eliot
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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.” -Gail Devers
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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.” -Yo-Yo Ma
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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.” -Ernst Fischer
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.” -Steve Jobs
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“I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.” -Joseph Campbell
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“If you have no faith, you’ve lost your battle.” -Bill Cosby
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“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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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.” -Henry Miller
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“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.” -Albert Camus
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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!” -Thomas A. Edison
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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.” -Xun Zi
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“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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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.” -Pope Paul VI
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“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” -George Washington
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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.” -Fidel Castro
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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.” -Swami Vivekananda
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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.” -John Wooden
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“Faith never makes a confession.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” -Khalil Gibran
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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.” -C. S. Lewis
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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.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.” -William Shakespeare
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“It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” -Muhammad Ali
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“My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.” -Dalai Lama
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.” -Lucille Ball
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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.” -Pope John Paul II
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” -Helen Keller
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“Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.” -Robert Browning
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“All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.” -David Livingstone
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“I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.” -Thomas More
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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.” -Ted Lange
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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.” -Desmond Morris
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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.” -John Woolman
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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.” -Orson Pratt
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“Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.” -Benjamin Whichcote
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“Vision looks upward and becomes faith.” -Stephen Samuel Wise
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“I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.” -Michael Malone
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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.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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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.” -Bruce Lee
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“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” -Zig Ziglar
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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.” -James Russell Lowell
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“The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.” -Augustus Hare
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“Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.” -Paula Abdul
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“Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.” -Oliver Cromwell
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“Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right.” -John Donne
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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.” -Puff Daddy
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“Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.” -Paul Brunton
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“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“It takes vision and courage to create – it takes faith and courage to prove.” -Owen D. Young
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“I hold that religion and faith are two different things.” -Pat Buckley
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“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.” -Norman Cousins
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“Faith is spiritualized imagination.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.” -Oswald Chambers
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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.” -Kirk Cameron
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“Faith is a passionate intuition.” -William Wordsworth
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“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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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.” -Lillian Smith
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“You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” -Rick Warren
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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.” -Alphonsus Liguori
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“God continues to work miracles in my life.” -Willie Aames
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“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.” -Billy Graham
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“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.” -Ayn Rand
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“If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.” -Ayrton Senna
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“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” -J. R. R. Tolkien
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“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.” -D. Elton Trueblood
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“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” -Voltaire
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” -Saint Augustine
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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.” -Abdul Kalam
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“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” -John Paul Jones
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“A man of courage is also full of faith.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.” -Mahalia Jackson
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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.” -B. C. Forbes
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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” -Mother Teresa
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“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Ralph Marston
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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.” -Emmanuel Teney
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“God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.” -Kelly Clarkson
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