"For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?"
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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
"Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself."
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
"You have as much laughter as you have faith."
"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
"Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth."
"Those who commit these types of scandals are guility of the spiritual equivalent of murder, but I, here among you to prevent something far worst for you. While those who give scandal are guilty of the spiritual equivalent of murder, those who take scandal- who allow scandals to destroy faith- are guilty of spiritual suicide."
"Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow."
"What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves."
"Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love."
"Deep faith eliminates fear."
"Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten."
""Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.""
"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness."
"Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation."
"Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe."
"Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather."
"It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create."
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."