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

Christopher Hitchens

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" Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith. "

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" In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. "

" One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. "

" Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. "

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" Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. "

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" Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God. "

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" Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are? "

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