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• I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Struggle

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• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Airplane, Birds Wings

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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• How many people have you made homesick for God?

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.359, Discovery House

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

  Lillian Smith

  Second Chance, Curves, Two Sides

  Lillian Eugenia Smith (1954). “The journey”, World Publishing Company

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• I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.26, Discovery House

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• Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Commitment, Intelligent

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.238, Discovery House

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• The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Majority

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Jesus, Children, Believe

  "Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane". Book by Harold Victor Martin, 1950.

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• If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lying, Joy, Tragedy

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.21, Convergent Books

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• Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Religion, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.244, Rajpal & Sons

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• Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.68, Fig

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• Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Light, Intellect

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• Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Simple, Men, Selfishness

  Alexander Maclaren (1902). “The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons”

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• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Color, Weather, Experience

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Silly, Compassion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• Faith is caught rather than taught.

  Henrietta Mears

  Taught, Caught

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• At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!

  Joel Osteen

  Life, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Apr 9, 2012

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• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

  Charles Capps

  Powerful, Fear, Writing

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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Doe, Literature

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• Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Atheist, Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Sin, Christ, Rejoice

  Letter to Melanchthon, 1521, in 'Epistolae' (Jena, 1556) vol. 1, folio 345 verso

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• Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God's channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Found You, Laughing, Looks

  Smith Wigglesworth (2003). “The Anointing of His Spirit”, p.20, Gospel Light Publications

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Religion

  Prejudices, Third Series ch. 14 (1922)

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