Faith Quotes
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Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.
Ernest Holmes
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When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.
Carlo Borromeo
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Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
Ezra Taft Benson
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When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
Jerry Bridges
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She did not suppose for a moment that anything worth having, and she now knew faith to be supremely worth having, was ever easy to have.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
Sydney Carter
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Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
Hattie McDaniel
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Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no more room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.
Benjamin Carson
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
Thomas A. Edison
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A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.
Beryl Markham
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With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.
Maxine Peake
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
Benjamin Carson
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Being able to know and feel what Karl knows and feels… that no matter what, I am God’s, and God is mine… that we have a connection; we have a relationship. Faith in your life brings God in your life.
Brian D. McLaren
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Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.
Elizabeth Goudge
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To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
George Trumbull Ladd
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
John Calvin
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Harry Emerson Fosdick