Faith.
Reflections on belief, trust, and the forces that guide us.
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“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”
Thomas Paine
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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.”
Vince Lombardi
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“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.”
Dalai Lama
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“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
Martin Luther
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“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'”
C.S Lewis
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”
Ronald Reagan
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“I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.”
Martin Luther
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“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
William Shakespeare
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“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
Charles Dickens
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“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
Billy Graham
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“As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.”
Billy Graham
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“The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.”
Franz Kafka
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“I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.”
Billy Graham
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“Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.”
Cicero
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“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”
Billy Graham
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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Mother Teresa
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“To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.”
Aeschylus
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“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
Alexander Pope
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“The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.”
Billy Graham
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“The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.”
Saint Augustine
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“Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.”
Mark Twain
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“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
Blaise Pascal
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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”
Samuel Butler
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“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
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“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
Thomas Paine
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“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Mark Twain
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“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
Albert Einstein
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“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”
C.S Lewis
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“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
Ronald Reagan
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“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”
Blaise Pascal
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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”
Blaise Pascal
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“Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.”
Elie Wiesel
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“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
Edmund Burke
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“Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”
Albert Einstein
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“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
C.S Lewis
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“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
C.S Lewis
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“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.”
Aristotle
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Saint Augustine
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“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”
Maya Angelou
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“Forgiveness is God's command.”
Martin Luther
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“God does not play dice.”
Albert Einstein
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“God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.”
Elbert Hubbard