"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
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"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."
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"Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God."
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"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
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"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
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"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
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"God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive."
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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
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"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."
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"Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain."
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"Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!"
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"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
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"I don't doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a nonracial society. I have just come from being a patient in Groote Schuur Hospital where they now have integrated wards. For the first time in my life, I have seen it working. The patients were mixed, the staff was mixed, and the medical officers were mixed; it was totally integrated. It was beautiful. White and black together. And it works. To me that is terribly exciting."
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"He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing."
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"The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God."
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"If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith."
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"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
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"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."
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"My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness."
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
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