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" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "

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" Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master. "

Walter Rauschenbusch

" If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. "

Mahalia Jackson

" All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. "

" Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs. "

" I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church. "

" But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. "

" Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm. "

" If I have the honor of being confirmed by the Senate, I will make it my highest priority to restore the public's confidence in the FBI and to re-earn the faith and trust of the American people. "

" 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. "

" If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them. "

" There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. "

" In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come. "

Madeleine L'Engle

" When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem. "

" God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. "

" However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love. "

Charles Spurgeon

" I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Self-Confidence

" Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace. "

Charles Spurgeon

" I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard. "

" If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. "

" Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight. "

Khaled Hosseini

" But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. "

" Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. "

" Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. "

" We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self. "

" May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? "

" My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. "

" Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her. "

" Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. "

" It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody. "

Christian Slater