faith

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Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.

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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

- Ambrose Bierce

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

- Channing, William Ellery

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

- Moody, Dwight L.

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

- Bible

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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

- Ambrose Bierce

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Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

- Chris Rock

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

- Baldwin, James

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

- Hlavaty, Vaclav

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

- Bardot, Brigitte

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

- Van Gogh, Vincent

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

- William Shakespeare

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

- Smith, Joseph F.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

- Pascal, Blaise

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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

- Bernanos, Georges

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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]

- Bible

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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

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IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Franklin, Benjamin