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  Faith Quotes - Conscious faith is freedom   “With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?” ― Jay Leno   “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.   But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.” ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed   “We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.” ― Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relations...

  Faith Quotes - Go where your best prayers take you   “In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night   “There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?” I shook my head, inching away from him. “Faith,” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone   “When oppressed and lost people see your supernatural life shining so bright, they are attracted! They are attracted to the Jesus in you.” ― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression   “Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.” ― michel de montaigne   “What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for tha...

  Faith Quotes - Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever   “Head up, heart open. To better days!” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence   “Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert   “True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.” ― Cara Lockwood, I Do (But I Don't)   “Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” ― St. Augustine of Hippo   “My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - man...

  Faith Quotes I Believe in Evidence   “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” ― Alfred, Lord Tennyson   “Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?" Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.” ― Isaac Asimov   “To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for th...

  Faith Quotes Faith Is About What You Do   “But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.” ― Jim Butcher, Changes   “In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.” ― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light   “If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.” ― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide   “I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state ...

  Faith Quotes Define Yourself Radically   There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of divinity is a mighty jump from the rational over to the unknowable, and I don't care how diligently scholars of every religion will try to sit you down with their stacks of books and prove to you through scripture that their faith is indeed rational; it isn't. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be - by definition - faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. 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, Eat, Pray, Love   “Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every othe...