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" I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. "

Aleister Crowley

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" A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. "

" Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation. "

" Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. "

" I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it. "

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" I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do. "

" Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. "

" Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. "

" In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it. "

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" A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love. "

Robert H. Schuller

" We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. "

" Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. "

Aleister Crowley

" When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art. "

" If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. "

" True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. "

William Ralph Inge

" Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. "

" To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. "

" We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways. "

" 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. "

Christopher Hitchens

" When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. "

" 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. "

" There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. "

Matthew Simpson

" It's OK to be outspoken about your faith. "

" What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom. "