Václav Hlavatý Quotes
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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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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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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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.
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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.
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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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I have faith in my imperfections!
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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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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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
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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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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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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football player I am, I knew I still needed to be a good member of the church. Having that spiritual connection helped me throughout the season. It brought balance. I felt better about myself and saw improvements in all aspects of my life.
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Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!
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Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.
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I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.
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There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
