Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
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When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly
Patrick Overton
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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
C.S. Lewis
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of
his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come
to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was
never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Essays--Of Boldness
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There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious
faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If
not, have none of it.
Hosea Ballou
Quotes , Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Hebrews (ch. XI, v. 1)
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For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Bible
Quotes , Source: II Corinthians (ch. V, v. 7)
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I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:
and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his
appearing.
Bible
Quotes , Source: II Timothy (ch. IV, v. 7)
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Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the
devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried;
and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto
death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Revelations (ch. II, v. 10)
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"Take courage, soul!
Hold not thy strength in vain!
With faith o'ercome the steeps
Thy God hath set for thee.
Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain
Lieth thine Italy."
Rose Terry Cooke
Quotes , Source: Beyond
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
Abraham Cowley
Quotes , Source: On the Death of Crashaw (l. 55)
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Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
Quotes , Source: to a friend hesitant with respect to infinitestimals, "The Mathematical Experience" by P.J. Davis an
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Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
Emily Dickinson
Quotes , Source: Poems--Second Series (XXX)
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To take up half on trust, and half to try,
Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. I, l. 141)
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We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried,
"Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"
Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!
What man can look on Death unterrified?
Richard Watson Gilder
Quotes , Source: Love and Death (st. 2)
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given;
The dearest child of Faith is Miracle
[Ger., Die Botschaft hor' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;
Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Faust (I, 1, 413)
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What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--
They sought a faith's pure shrine!
Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Quotes , Source: Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
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