John Calvin Quotes
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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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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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
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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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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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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 still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
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I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.
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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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When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.
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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.
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The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.
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Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.
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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.
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My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
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The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
