Allen Steele Quotes
There's a difference between religion and faith," Chandi said, "Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.
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I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
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And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.
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I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
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There are many serious and knotty issues that I must face each day, but the Pope Francis reminds me by his example and his words that Christ has already redeemed creation and we are saved, even when that might not be so obvious because of the world's many problems and our own grievous sinfulness.
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Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.
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There's a difference between religion and faith," Chandi said, "Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.
