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Faith Quotes
"I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves."
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"I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way."
143
"We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation."
141
"Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope."
136
"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
133
"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men."
129
"The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower."
126
"The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life."
124
"He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith."
117
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
105
"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
103
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
97
"When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest."
80
"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
77
"I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith."
76
"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
75
"Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution."
74
"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life."
73
"To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing."
73
"And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens."
71
"Throughout the world today there are people who are enduring cruelties and persecution because of their Christian faith. We must pray for them, and for ourselves, so that in our own dying hour God will give us grace to endure until the end, anticipating the certainty of His glory to come."
71
"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."
69
"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."
68
"For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say."
68
"Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned."
66
"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated."
66
"Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other."
66
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
66
"The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let's exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith-an eternal home for the soul."
65
"Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."
64
"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."
61
"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it."
60
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
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