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• True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Faith, Religious, Sovereign

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• You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Mean, Sacrifice

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• All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.

  George W. Bush

  Brother, Hate, Inspiration

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• Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Letting Go, Liars

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• True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Fruit, Shows

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.69, Letcetera Publishing

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• A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Faith, God, Christian

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters”, p.47

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• It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.

  Ray Stedman

  Jobs, Book, Loss

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• True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Answers, Operations

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• It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Weather, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Cities, Voice

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• True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

  Frederick Buechner

  Angel, Simple, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Brendan: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.

  Steve Arterburn

  Real, Moderation, Pure

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• It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Sincerity, Christ

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• Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

  Simone Weil

  Obstacles, Source, Consolation

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• Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Support

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.7, Hackett Publishing

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• We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense

  Joel Osteen

  Deep Life, Make Sense, Happens

  Twitter post from Nov 1, 2014

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• God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.

  J. G. Holland

  Time, Strong, Heart

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.89

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• In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

  J.P. Moreland

  Believe, Dark, Biblical

  J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig (2009). “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

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• This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Writing, Church, Doctrine

  Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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• True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

  R. C. Sproul

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

  James A. Baldwin

  Spiritual, Arrogance, Atheism

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind" by James A. Baldwin in "The New Yorker" (November 17, 1962), republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in James A. Baldwin "The Fire Next Time", 1963.

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Believe, Reality, Belief

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• A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

  Pope Leo I

  Taken, Salvation

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• Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

  Ezra Levant

  Superstitions, Belief, Capable

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