"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."
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"God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful."
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"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
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"Faith consists in believing what reason cannot."
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"The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures."
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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times."
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"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."
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"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
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"You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason."
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"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
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"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque."
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"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue."
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"You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay."
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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
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"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
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"I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am."
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"If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence."
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"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
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"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
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