"Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life."
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"We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith."
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"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."
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"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
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"Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality."
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"It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical."
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"If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God."
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"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
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"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."
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"My soul is in the sky."
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"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
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"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
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"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
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"Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal."
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"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one."
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"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth."
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"It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work."
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"Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren."
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