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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
102
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine
103
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
104
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
105
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
106
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
107
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther
108
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
109
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
110
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
111
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
112
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
113
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
114
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham
115
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
116
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
117
I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.
Billy Graham
118
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
Cicero
119
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
120
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
121
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Aeschylus
122
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
123
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
Billy Graham
124
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
125
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
Mark Twain
126
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal
127
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler
128
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
129
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
130
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine
131
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
132
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln
133
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Albert Einstein
134
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
135
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C.S Lewis
136
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan
137
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
138
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
139
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
Elie Wiesel
140
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
141
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
142
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C.S Lewis
143
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
144
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
145
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
Aristotle
146
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
147
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
148
Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther
149
God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
150
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard