"The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children."
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"Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them."
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"Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?"
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"You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt."
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"There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals."
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"Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself"
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"The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first."
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"Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present in every atom, is through and through, Ota-Prota, as the Sanskrit word goes, penetrating your body, mind and soul, how can you lose heart?"
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"Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you."
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"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible."
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"Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within."
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"Non-violence is the article of faith."
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"I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience."
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"My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith."
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"Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God."
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"Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God."
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"Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths."
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"My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves."
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"You plus God equals enough."
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"Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged."
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