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"I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous."
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
"Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him."
"No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly."
"To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."
"No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out."
"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."
"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."
"I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."
"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
"In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest."
"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
"Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold."
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
"When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too."
"No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ."
"Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves."
"Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is."
