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"To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being."
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."
"Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire."
"God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end."
"If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her."
"It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at."
"Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something."
"Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!"
"Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony"
"There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter."
"And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future."
"The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic."
""I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.""
"I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold."
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
"Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine."
"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."
"Understanding is the wages of faith."
"You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace."
