"Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith."
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"If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us."
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"Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention."
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"Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair."
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"Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not."
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"Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee."
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"Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait."
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"At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died."
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"Man is at his tallest when he bows."
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"The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire."
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"A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love."
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"Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution."
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"You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness."
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"Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come."
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"We are older by faith than by experience."
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"Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform."
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"The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag."
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"That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned."
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"We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love."
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"The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from."
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