"Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency."
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"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
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"When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel."
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"Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake."
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"In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility."
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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."
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"Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance."
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"I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter."
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"I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name."
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"Faith is a passionate intuition."
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"Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of man in affairs, the more there is of God."
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"[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary."
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"God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted."
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"[L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for this and redouble our confidence in God."
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"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."
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"Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not."
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"A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise."
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"A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority"
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"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"
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"What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship."
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