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" A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

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" True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action. "

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" An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. "

" Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. "

Hans Urs von Balthasar

" To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept. "

" Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people. "

" I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship. "

" Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. "

" In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. "

" That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. "

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" If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. "

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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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" No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today! "

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" No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. "

" I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician. "

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" If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? "