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" Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. "

" The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. "

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" My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now. "

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

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" If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. "

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" Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. "

" Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me. "

" Faith is spiritualized imagination. "

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" I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it. "

" Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. "

" If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. "

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" Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness. "

" I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist. "

" Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. "

" With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. "

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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. "

" The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches. "

" It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. "

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" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. "

" A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. "

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" In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. "

" Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed! "

" 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. "

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" Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. "

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