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" Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. "

Flannery O'Connor

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" Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.' "

" The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. "

" If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. "

William Hazlitt

" The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. "

" Faith is spiritualized imagination. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. "

" Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. "

Flannery O'Connor

" Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. "

Saint Augustine

" Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers. "

" It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. "

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

" I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come. "

" Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith. "

" Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. "

Gustave Flaubert

" As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic. "

Frederica Mathewes-Green

" The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. "

Flannery O'Connor

" I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief. "

" Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. "

" Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. "

" Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. "

Saint Augustine

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

" People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives. "

" Pray, and let God worry. "

" When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science. "

" There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory. "

" I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care. "

Madonna Ciccone

" Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. "

" If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. "

" Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths. "

" A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently. "