Augustus Toplady Quotes
Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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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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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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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers -
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
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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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My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
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Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical 'patriarchy' their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.
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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.
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I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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For me, the Lord has opened the windows of heaven and showered blessings upon my family beyond my ability to express.
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Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
