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"There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world."
"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent."
"Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work."
"Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures."
"The greatest of all miracles is to be alive."
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
"Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
"In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong."
"Love is an act of faith."
"[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow."
"Put your backbone where your wishbone is."
"Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way"
"Faith is God's work within us."
"We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt and reject everything else in order to believe firmly in Christ, and after you have begun to believe, your faith itself must be tested and purified. Christianity is not merely a set of forgone conclusions. Faith tends to be defeated by the burning presence of God in mystery, and seeks refuge from him, flying to comfortable social forms and safe convictions in which purification is no longer an inner battle but a matter of outward gesture."
"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
"Give Him your mess and let it become your message."
"You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God."
"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."
