Henry Norris Russell Quotes
The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
Henry Norris Russell
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Hungary needs Russia.
Viktor Orban
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Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.
Sam Brownback
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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
Walter Martin
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Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.
Lewis H. Lapham
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My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.
Anastacia
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All machines knew what would happen to them when their masters lost faith in their infallibility.
Alastair Reynolds
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It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien.
Charlie Pierce
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As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
Dinaw Mengestu
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There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.
Corbin Bernsen
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If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
Matthew Simpson
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I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
Leah Ward Sears
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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.
Alana Stewart
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People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.
Campbell McGrath
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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Andrew Greeley
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I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
Zaha Hadid
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Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!
Eric Ludy
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The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
Henry Norris Russell
