Faith Quotes
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Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.
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Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.
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Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.
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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.
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Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.
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The prayer of faith is the only kind that is real prayer, and it is trust in God with full acknowledgment of God's power and love.
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Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
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I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
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If you believe that something is good, and you do it, it benefits you. If you believe that something is bad, and you do it, it is a very detrimental experience.
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Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.
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When once it is no longer possible to understand how a man gives his life for his country--and the time will come--then all is over with that faith also, and the idea of the Fatherland is dead; and then, perhaps, we shall be envied, as we envy the saints their inward and irresistible strength.
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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.
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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.
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Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
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A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
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When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."
