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• Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Believe, Virtue

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• I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

  Alexander Pope

  Prayer, Believe, Feelings

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• Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

  John Milton

  Causes, Failing, Proof

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.391

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• A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

  Augustus William Hare

  Believe, Bounds

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.284

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• The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Believe, Needs, Use

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• Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

  Blaise Pascal

  Silent, Deny, Testimony

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.539

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• I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about their beliefs. Some impressed me more than others, but it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the gift of faith (and I think it is a gift) is the most valuable one of all. People who have it are stronger-and kinder-and more unselfish-and happier. It's as simple (and as mysterious) as that.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Religious, Thinking, Simple

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• The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Night, Wind, Sea

  "Dover Beach" l. 21 (1867)

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• Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Fall, Sleep, Home

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 218, 1895.

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• Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Saving, Coins, Want

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• A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

  Jonathan Swift

  Law, World, Weight

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.267

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• Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

  William Wordsworth

  Evil, Reconcile, Humans

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• Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lines, Shade, Keenness

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author”, p.49

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• It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Light, Sea

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• There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy--that is, reverences God--does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks--they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Moving, Heart, Rocks

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons ...”, p.192

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• Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christian, Mean, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent (1854). “The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography”, p.420

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• Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

  James Russell Lowell

  Teaching, Men, England

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.229

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• Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

  Charles Lamb

  Mistake, Dark, Men

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• Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

  Mitch Albom

  Christian, Believe, Acting

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

  William Hazlitt

  War, Winning, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1260, Delphi Classics

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• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  Orson Pratt

  Religious, Parent, Unfortunate

  Orson Pratt (1975). “The Orson Pratt Journals”

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• We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wise, Mind, Habit

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Wise, Flower, Fall

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• To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

  John Dryden

  Names, Trying, Half

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.401, Pearson Education

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