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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. S...

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Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our...

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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him...

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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night se...

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There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gr...

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This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very str...

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Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advanc...

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Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed...

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Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying, 'Yes, I pre-accept the terms of t...

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The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert...

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My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitat...

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A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the youn...

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Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...

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There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of div...

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He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin...

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I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me....

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In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work ...

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I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t...

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I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which ...

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Elizabeth GilbertThe Signature of All Things

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that beli...

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Our acceptance with God is sure only through His beloved Son, and good works are but the result of t...

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But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith hav...

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There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or establ...

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Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of ...

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We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for...

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Let no one take the limited, narrow position that any of the works of man can help in the least poss...

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The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites save...

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Ellen G. WhitePatriarchs And Prophets

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God...

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Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability...

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Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is...

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No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:I see heaven's glories shine...

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Faith—is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not—Too slender for the ...

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Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be him...

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares no...

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee to give oneself completely in the hope that our love...

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To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and di...

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Erich FrommThe Art of Loving

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

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Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get thin...

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No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to H...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would m...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, ...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must b...

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The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...

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While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings t...

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Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of thei...

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My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spon...

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Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and t...

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Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as we...

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The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves...

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Frank HerbertGod Emperor of Dune

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, s...

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Frans de WaalThe Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is ...

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I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, ...

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No man can bear a child's cross.

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François MauriacThe Woman of the Pharisees

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Go where your best prayers take you.

Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this p...

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Frederick BuechnerA Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to kn...

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It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinc...

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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

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Frederick BuechnerThe Magnificent Defeat

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be ...

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Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect...

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend i...

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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...

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The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact w...

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Fulton J. SheenCharacters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust

In vain will the world seek for equality until it has seen all men through the eyes of faith. Faith ...

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Fulton J. SheenRemade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose Through Spiritual Transformation

At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a...

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Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

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Gabriel García MárquezOf Love and Other Demons

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was r...

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Doubt everything. Find your own light.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

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We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we kn...

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The risen Christ! Once morefaith is upon us, a jubilant brief keeningwith respite:Obedience, bitter ...

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...

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It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master...

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You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a whil...

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It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide tha...

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Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith ...

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...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;...

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The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.