“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”
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“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
“With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”
“People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.”
“Faith Hill is a big role model.”
“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”
“'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.”
“Fear clogs faith liberates.”
“Faith is a state of openness or trust.”
“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.”
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.”
“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.”
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
“Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.”
“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
“God enters by a private door into every individual.”
“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”
“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.”