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"Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away."
"Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another."
"Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread."
"Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies."
"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not."
"All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning."
"The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something."
"Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next."
"Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord."
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
"Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith."
"Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace."
"A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith."
"The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith."
"My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God."
"In a real sense faith is total surrender to God ."
"Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow."
"Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?"
"Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works."