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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life."

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
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"Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also."

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Robert Adams Photographer
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"...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world."

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Ovid Poet
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"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading."

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Lawrence Wright Author, Journalist
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"Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free."

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show you God's faithful love."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe."

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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation."

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