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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
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Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days.
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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
-Josh Billings
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We speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better.
-Robert Bolt
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
-Hal Borland
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain, - the impalpable principle of light and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man - perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph! Surely it will never, on the contrary, be suffered to degenerate from man to fiend?
No; I cannot believe that: I hold another creed: which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention; but in which I delight, and to which I cling: for it extends hope to all: it makes Eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end.
-Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, ch. 6
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
-Emily Bronte
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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
-Sir Thomas Browne
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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
-Samuel Butler
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
-Samuel Butler
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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
-Eric Butterworth
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
-Oswald Chambers
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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.
-Oswald Chambers
My Utmost For His Highest
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Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
-Oswald Chambers
My Utmost For His Highest
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
-William Ellery Channing
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshine of his face;
Content to let the world go by,
To know no gain nor loss;
My sinful self my only shame,
My glory, all the cross.
-Elizabeth Clephane, 1868
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
-Mason Cooley
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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
-Donald Curtis
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
-Demosthenes
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
-Annie Dillard
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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
-John Donne
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Books about Faith
