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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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" I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that. "

" Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough. "

" The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices. "

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" A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. "

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" It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. "

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

" Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is. "

" The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. "

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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. "

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" An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. "

" Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. "

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" Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions. "

" My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. "

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" You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. "

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

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" Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. "

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" 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. "

" It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody. "

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

" If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.' "

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" I'm glad people think that I can do well. I always say I would rather that be the scenario than on the other end of it saying, 'We thought she'd be real crappy.' I'll take the side that I'm on. I'll take that people think that I'm going to do well; they have faith in me and believe in me, and that makes me feel stronger. "

" Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence of the light of our souls. Look around. We have lost the sparkle in our eyes, the passion in our marriages, the meaning in our work, the joy of our faith. "

" Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions. "

" My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. "

" I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship. "

" 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. "

" Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. "