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Faith.

Reflections on belief, trust, and the forces that guide us.

“Pray, and let God worry.”

“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”

“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”

Albert Einstein

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

Thomas Jefferson

“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”

“If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.”

“Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.”

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”

“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.”

“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.”

Jean Paul Richter

“I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.”

“Faith is a passionate intuition.”

William Wordsworth

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

William Shakespeare

“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”

“Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.”

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”

“Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.”

“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”

“Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.”

“Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.”

“My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.”

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

G.K. Chesterton

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

“To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God.”

“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.”

“Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.”

“Live a life as a monument to your soul.”

“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.”

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

“Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

“Sin is essentially a departure from God.”

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”

“God is not deceived by the externals.”

“Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.”

“In buying horses and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God.”

Italian proverbs

“God uses people who fail because there aren't any other kind around.”

“It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.”

“Not all who go to church say their prayers.”

Italian proverbs

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.”

Stanley Lindquist

“The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.”

“In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.”

“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”