"Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil."
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"Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity."
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"The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion."
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"Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor."
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"Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation."
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"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."
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"If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished."
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"The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes."
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"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
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"Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart."
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"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
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"On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property."
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"Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief."
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"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
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"It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."""
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"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see."
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"The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free."
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"Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing."
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"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."
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"Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end."
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