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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free ...

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[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that ca...

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He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and ...

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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of ...

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I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that g...

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We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war...

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In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,because the basic thrust of the doctrine i...

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Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

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Sam HarrisLetter to a Christian Nation

Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

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Sam HarrisLetter to a Christian Nation

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any othe...

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Sam HarrisLetter to a Christian Nation

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of e...

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Sam HarrisLetter to a Christian Nation

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The ver...

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Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is ...

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Sam HarrisThe End of Faith: Religion

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie ...

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Sam HarrisThe End of Faith: Religion

There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To pr...

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Sam HarrisThe End of Faith: Religion

We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us ...

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Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted...

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No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believ...

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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in h...

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He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relation...

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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is ...

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When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns o...

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‎Now I think ultimately our hope is certainly that people can feel and taste the goodness of God and...

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Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that f...

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But su...

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Sharon Kay PenmanWhen Christ and His Saints Slept

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really st...

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He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets ...

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Yet while I do this work because of my faith, I also recognize of course that in a pluralistic socie...

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Simone CampbellA Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.

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Simone WeilWaiting for God

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friend...

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One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addres...

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Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the c...

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I was too much of an extremist to be able to live under the eye of God and at the same time say both...

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Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witne...

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It is better to live ready than to get ready!

Deepen your faith in yourself.Nothing will be ableTo frighten or weaken you.

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that ...

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Stanley HauerwasResident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow because science must always test and measure an...

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Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and...

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When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and ...

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Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of ...

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Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

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Stephen L. CarterThe Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

Be true, unbeliever.

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Stephen R. DonaldsonThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically g...

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From faith,’ replied Emral Lanear, ‘do we not seek guidance?’ ‘Guidance, or the organized assembly a...

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Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those bel...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy Chur...

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Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")

I said, "Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?"He snorted. "You're right, the only deliv...

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...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Mermaid Chair

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. 

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Swami VivekanandaComplete Works of Swami Vivekananda

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith refl...

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Søren KierkegaardFear and Trembling

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Without risk faith is an impossibility.

Although, I admit, I desire,Occasionally, some backtalkFrom the mute sky, I can't honestly complain:...

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Sylvia PlathThe Collected Poems

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is u...

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but no...

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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a relig...

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Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has s...

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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people beco...

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...

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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees an...

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It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialecticalconsequences inherent in...

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You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, l...

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It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...

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to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

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Søren KierkegaardThe Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the ho...

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