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- “He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.”
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Suzy Kassem
- “The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.”
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Julia Cameron,
Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
- “God determine the time and duration in the wilderness for every man.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”
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Egon Schiele
- “Belief in God, messiah or some spiritual con-artist is optional, but belief in the self is imperative.”
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Abhijit Naskar,
Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
- “The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose.”
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Arnold Bennett
- “You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.”
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Truth Devour,
Unrequited
- “The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.”
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Carl Jung
- “[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.”
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Sam Harris,
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
- “God’s beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.”
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Elizabeth George,
Beautiful in God’s Eyes: The Treasures of the Proverbs 31 Woman
- “Purity also offers you a new lens through which you view life. Not only are you more able to see God with the eyes of faith, you’re also more able to see Him in others….Wouldn’t it be nice not only to see God in a boyfriend, but know that your boyfriend sees God in you?”
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Jason Evert,
How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul
- “Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.”
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Jaroslav Pelikan,
The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
- “It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to become. Trust in the Lord as He leads you along. He has things for you to do that you won’t know about now but that will unfold later. If you stay close to Him, You will have some great adventures. You will live in a time where instead of sometimes being fulfilled, many of them will actually be fulfilled. The Lord will unfold your future bit by bit.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
- “Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- “On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.”
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Evelyn Underhill
- “There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.”
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Ally Carter,
Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover
- “Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
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Margaret Atwood,
The Handmaid’s Tale
- “Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.”
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Shannon L. Alder
- “If you need a god, keep it – everybody has imaginary friends, my imaginary friend is my late teacher, and I find it therapeutic to talk to him whenever I hit rock bottom. But what does it have to with religion – it’s just something we humans need to survive, quite like water and food! The last thing this world needs is more war to prove whose imaginary friend is better than the rest.”
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Abhijit Naskar,
When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
- “What wills to grow will grow. What wills to flow will flow.”
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Donna Goddard,
Faith
- “So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.”
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
Hymn of the Universe
- “Though we faced many trails, we do not lose hope. We are living by faith.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.”
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Carter Heyward
- “Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith,” said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, “and a kind of faith more independent, autonomous – more truly strong, as a matter of fact – than the Puritans really sought. Faith, he tells us, is not an exotic bloom to be laboriously maintained by the exclusion of most aspects of the day to day world, nor a useful delusion to be supported by sophistries and half-truths like a child’s belief in Father Christmas – not, in short, a prudently unregarded adherence to a constructed creed; but rather must be, if anything, a clear-eyed recognition of the patterns and tendencies, to be found in every piece of the world’s fabric, which are the lineaments of God. This is why religion can only be advice and clarification, and cannot carry any spurs of enforcement – for only belief and behavior that is independently arrived at, and then chosen, can be praised or blamed. This being the case, it can be seen as a criminal abridgement of a person’s rights willfully to keep him in ignorance of any facts – no piece can be judged inadmissible, for the more stones, both bright and dark, that are added to the mosaic, the clearer is our picture of God.”
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Tim Powers,
The Anubis Gates
- “A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.”
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Criss Jami,
Killosophy
- “Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.”
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Elizabeth Gilbert
- “We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.”
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Sam Harris
- “How wide, how long, how deep is the love that Saviour extends to all humanity!”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “We’re stronger than we think.”
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Joe Kelly,
I Kill Giants
- “Pray each morning and each night.Talk to God and be polite.Tell Him what you’re grateful for.Leave your troubles at His door.Share your wishes, needs, and hopes.Ask God how to bravely cope.Tell Him all you learned today.Say the things you need to say.Beg forgiveness for your sins.Pray to live with Him again.Speak with earnest heart and soul.He will listen. This I know.For prayer is hope put to the test.And hope is faith in what is best.Faith is power to do great things.Thus, prayer is faith’s enabling wings.”
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Richelle E. Goodrich,
Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year