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" Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. "

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Deborah Mailman

" If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do... then how we talk about them matters. "

" The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other. "

" 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. "

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" People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. "

" Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it. "

" With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent. "

Henry B. Eyring

" Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith. "

Ignatius of Antioch

" When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. "

" If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. "

" Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. "

" With faith and gratitude to Allah the almighty, I declare that tomorrow, Thursday May 1, 2014, will see the enforcement of sharia law phase one, to be followed by the other phases. "

Hassanal Bolkiah

" With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life. "

" Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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. "

" Vision looks upward and becomes faith. "

Stephen Samuel Wise

" Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith. "

" Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. "

Richard Dawkins

" A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does. "

" When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? "

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" Duty cannot exist without faith. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. "

" Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. "

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" If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. "

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" Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven. "

" You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. "