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" Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith. "

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" When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him. "

Anne Graham Lotz

Life

Prayer

Relationship

" I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary. "

Deepak Chopra

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" That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. "

" Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. "

" The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices. "

" Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. "

" As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives. "

" Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity

Ancestors

Know

" How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. "

" Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. "

" That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. "

" Faith is easy; I think people complicate it. "

" Your vote can't be separated from your faith. "

" When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support. "

" For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God

Action

" Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world. "

" To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. "

" Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. "

" My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction. "

" The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. "

" Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. "

John Lewis

Prayer

Bird

" Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. "

" Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Time

Fire

Love

" The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology. "

John Gresham Machen

Religion

Christian

" An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. "

" The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. "

" If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. "

" There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. "

" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love

Guidance

Surrender

" I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. "