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" Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. "

Vincent Van Gogh

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" Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way. "

" The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace. "

" I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" Society lives by faith, and develops by science. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" 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. "

" Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. "

" Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. "

Christopher Hitchens

" If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith. "

Charles Spurgeon

" 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

" We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. "

" Faith is a passionate intuition. "

William Wordsworth

" We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter. "

John D. Rockefeller

" Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what. "

Martina McBride

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" The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. "

" It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? "

Dwight L. Moody

" Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.' "

Victoria Osteen

" If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society. "

Maria Montessori

" I am sorry for causing anyone to lose faith in sport. "

Lizzie Armitstead

" There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world. "

" Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. "

" Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. "

" The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. "

" Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens. "

" 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

" And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across. "