Tertullian Quotes
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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I don't consider myself a 'religious' person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith.
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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live.
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The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
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There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: ‘Don’t be economic girlie men!’
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Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.
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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.
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I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.
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My faith guides my life.
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It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.
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In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.
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I would really like to hear somebody who is really articulate about the elements of their faith conversion. I'm not.
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Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
