Faith Quotes
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The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.
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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.
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I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
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I think when people speak about faith, they always get stuck when they're starting to speak about the terrible things that happen in the world, and I always know, even in the Torah, they're always speaking about it, that if there is fifty percent of love, there is fifty percent of hate, they are always in perfect balance.
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Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.
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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
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Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you.
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Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).
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Repentance means change: Change in what you think, change in what you desire, change in what you do and say. It is the evidence of authentic faith.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
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Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
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Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.
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Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
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My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
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We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority.
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Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is
