Faith Quotes
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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
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One might conclude that these were a few rogue rotten Spanish apples, acting in opposition to their faith. But notice the religious motivation for the cruelty described by Bartolomé: They took infants from their mothers’ breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them headfirst against the crags or snatched them by the arms and threw them into the rivers, roaring with laughter and saying as the babies fell into the water, “Boil there, you offspring of the devil!”…They made some low wide gallows on which the hanged victim’s feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, then set burning wood at their feet and thus burned them alive
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I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
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Without faith your mind gets fouled. Look at Cervantes. He was a man of faith and nothing fouled Cervantes, not even war and slavery. He wrote the first part of Don Quixote in prison.
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Faith was designed to take what Jesus makes! If you want to lay hold of the finished works of Jesus, it's going to be by faith! Have faith in God.
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It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.
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Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
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Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.
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Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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I slowly began to realize that I had been wasting my time with a hyper-focus on why all the “others” were doing it wrong and began to release the icy grip I had on everything I thought I knew. I finally accepted that I would be much happier if I just focused on myself and taking my own faith journey seriously and stopped worrying so much about everyone else. As soon as I gave up on the idea of changing everyone else and exchanged it for a commitment to change myself, I saw my heart begin to change.
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Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith.
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
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It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason.
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I wonder if the fact that I left the faith is somehow seen as threatening, at least among people who have a gnawing suspicion.
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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.
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Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
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To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.
