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  God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

  Pat Summitt

  God, Flying, Rooms

  Pat Head Summitt, Sally Jenkins (2013). “Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective”, p.376, Crown Archetype

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• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Prayer, Health, Men

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• Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Believe, Long, Christian Inspirational

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Different, Proof, Latter

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Courage, Dark, Destiny

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Knowing, Where You Are

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.33, Discovery House

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• ...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Family And Friends, Ordinary

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• No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

  Joel Osteen

  Time, Christian Inspirational, Long

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

  Jane Powell

  Motivational, Strength, Confidence

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• Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Cancer, Believe

  'Questions sur l'Encyclopèdie'

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• Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

  Emily Dickinson

  Bridges, Scene

  c.1864 Complete Poems, no.915 (first published 1929).

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• Love is an act of faith.

  Erich Fromm

  Romantic, Sweet, Love Is

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Path, Facts

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Inspiration, Impossible

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• Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

  H. C. Bailey

  Reason, Faculty, Higher

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• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Future, Two

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• Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Depth, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.385, Library of America

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• Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

  Novalis

  Half, One Half

  Novalis, Arthur Versluis (1989). “Pollen and fragments: selected poetry and prose of Novalis”, Phanes Pr

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• For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Religious, Believe

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• The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

  George Muller

  Motivational, Strong, Trials

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• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Believe

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 09, 2014

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Happy New Year

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Catholic, May

  Saint Augustine, John W. Rettig (1993). “Tractates on the Gospel of John 28–54 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 88)”, p.18, CUA Press

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• Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

  William Osler

  Men, All Things, Can Do

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