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• Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

  Dan Brown

  Religious, Jesus, Science

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

  John Dryden

  Names, Trying, Half

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.401, Pearson Education

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• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Christian, Religious

  As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

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• God is even kinder than you think.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Kinder

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• Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Cutting, Anxiety, Vain

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• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Believe, Thinking, Atheism

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• Our life must answer for our faith.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Answers, Our Lives

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• Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

  Meister Eckhart

  Giving, Be Prepared, All Time

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• Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

  Paul Tillich

  Opposites, Doubt, Elements

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• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Confidence, Soulmate, Educational

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• When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Determination, Believe

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• Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

  Isidore of Seville

  Christian, Hope, Religious

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• Through faith, the weak times can become peak times.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Weak

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• Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.

  Anthony Farindon

  Christian, Believe, Rely Upon

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• The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James A. Baldwin

  Teamwork, Kwanzaa, Sea

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Doors

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Mother

  "Steve Harvey: The 'Think Like a Man' Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 16, 2012.

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• The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

  Martin Luther

  Truth, Cost, Ifs

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• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Men, Soul And Body

  Hannah More (1803). “The Works of Hannah More, in Four Volumes: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.75

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• We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

  John Henry Newman

  Believe, Responsibility, Ethics

  Letter to Mrs.William Froude, 27 June 1848

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• Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Happiness, Education, Religious

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.258, Columbia University Press

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• The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

  Thornton Wilder

  Hope, Fear, Atheism

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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