John Calvin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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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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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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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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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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 -
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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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
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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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My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
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You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
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You need to cut a few things out if you want to be the best you can be.
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Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
