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Faith Quotes
"We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future."
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"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
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"I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life."
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"Remember, this type doesn't really believe He'll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay."
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"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."
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"It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer - lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on."
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"Prayer is good but unconditional love is better."
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"Anyone who prays for the death of his enemy must consider who tempted Jesus Christ, the persecution of the apostles and the Psalm 23 of David."
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"We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love."
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"Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being."
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"Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith."
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
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"Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families."
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"But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith."
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"Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional -the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations."
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"I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it."
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"When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Imagination, outweighs it. But when they pray with ever increasing confidence, they see with an ever-increasing and youthful Imagination and such burgeoning of possibility causes even their Memory to be lightened and redeemed. The scales fall from their eyes and they wait on their Father with the same childlike wonder that watches a sunrise to see what might happen this time."
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"Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed."
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"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."
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"If we can keep the Christians thinking of themselves as sinners not sons and daughters, we can make them view their relationship to The Adversary as a negative-sum-game: They fall in a hole, He pulls them out, they fall back in, etc... That way they never get anywhere; they're always either standing next to a hole or down in it."
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"Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness."
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"I have never been to the North Pole, and yet I believe there is a North Pole. How do I know? I know because somebody told me. I read about it in a history book, I saw a map in a geography book, and I believe the men who wrote those books. I accept it by faith. The Bible says, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” [Romans 10:17 KJV]."
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"I have to hurry all day to get time to pray."
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"God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first."
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"Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul."
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"When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do."
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"To have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God."
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"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
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