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• Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

  Alan Cohen

  Gratitude, Stronger, Use

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• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Lonely, Brother

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Religious, Believe

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Philosophy, Army, Government

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• Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

  Blaise Pascal

  Embrace, Seems

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.280, Letcetera Publishing

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• Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Trustworthy, Trustworthiness, Trust Worthy

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• All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Single Word, Ruined

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• Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wise, Men, Miracle

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Tupper's Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated : first and second series”, p.224

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• Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  God, Patience, Father

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• Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Hope, Philosophical, Thoughtful

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• When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Long, Add

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• We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

  Joyce Meyer (2016). “Power Thoughts: 12 Strategies to Win the Battle of the Mind”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Thinking, Two

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

  Desmond Morris

  Mother, Children, Father

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Creative, Waiting

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.24, Anchor

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• Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

  Blaise Pascal

  Silent, Deny, Testimony

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.539

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• You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

  Robert Browning

  Doubt, Stronger, Shows

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dishonour, Rooted, Unfaithful

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 870

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• Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morning, Earth, Firsts

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• Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Men, Two

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.329

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• Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

  John Milton

  Causes, Failing, Proof

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.391

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• We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Infinite, Leaks, Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

  Alexander Pope

  Prayer, Believe, Feelings

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• Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Believe, Virtue

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• Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

  Norbert Wiener

  Men, Have Faith, Way

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.193, Da Capo Press

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