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" I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life. "
John Updike
Life
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" 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. "
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" And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across. "
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" I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. "
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" You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about. "
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" There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. "
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" We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other. "
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" I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession. "
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" Society lives by faith, and develops by science. "
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" This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can. "
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" To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. "
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" The future is as bright as your faith. "
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" No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. "
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" Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. "
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" Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever. "
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" All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ. "
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" To me faith means not worrying. "
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" Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. "
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" My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers. "
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" Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. "
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" Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend. "
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" I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith. "
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" The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith. "
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