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“A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.”
“A faith without some doubts is like a human body without any antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she has failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection. Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts — not only their own but their friends' and neighbors'. It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them. Only if you struggle long and hard with objections to your faith will you be able to provide the grounds for your beliefs to skeptics, including yourself, that are plausible rather than ridiculous or offensive. And, just as important for our current situation, such a process will lead you, even after you come to a position of strong faith, to respect and understand those who doubt.”
“a faith without works is an orphan without a home, without family.”
Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.”
“A faithful follower is better than a disloyal leader.”
“A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”
“A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.”
“A faithful leader shall surely become a fruitful leadear”
“A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.”
“A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.”
“A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.”
Source: Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide
“A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.”
Source: Three plays
“A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.”
Source: Everyone's money book
“A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.”
“A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.”
“A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“A fake friend indeed is a friend only in his need”
“A Fake Friend is an enemy in disguise.”
Source: The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins
“A fake friend is someone that ridicules your feelings, steps on your emotions and gossips about you behind your back”
“A fake person pretends to act like a real one, whether through a picture, conversation, or name and status; in fact, it shows one's mental complex.”
“A fake ring. A fake engagement. Fake love. Everything was fake. Shiny and put together on the outside, empty on the inside.”
Source: Sugared
“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.”
“A falcon. I can see that. I thought you said nothing lived here?”
Sand’s face went blank. “There was nothing alive, except for me, until Merlin. And then you.”
Perrotte bit back her exasperation, and said simply, “Go on.”
He twined his blunt-tipped fingers together, staring down at them. “I, erm. I found the falcon in the mews.” “So, it’s not true that there was nothing alive in the castle?”
“The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it’s exhausting to get them out in the right order.” He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she’d heard one. She raised an eyebrow.
“The falcon was dead!” Sand blurted out. “Stuffed and mounted, and then also damaged in the sundering. I mended him, and put him on the mantel, so I’d have something to talk to. But a couple days before you—you came upstairs—” He gestured helplessly at the bird, who stopped stripping water from its feathers just long enough to glare at the humans. Perrotte stared. “The bird came to life,” she whispered. “After you put it to rights, this falcon came to life. Just like me.”
“Well . . .”
Source: The Castle Behind Thorns
“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”
Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.”
Source: Notre Dame of Paris
“A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.”
“A fall is never a failure.”
“A fallacy has been created that the original empire of the Guptas existed in Magadha while all evidences - epigraphic, numismatic, and the Pauranic - go in favour of establishing the region of Eastern Uttar Pradesh as the original home of the Guptas.”
Source: A Political History of the Imperial Guptas: From Gupta to Skandagupta
“A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought --
But no, a butterfly.”
Source: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology
“A fallen feather
knows as much about return
as any wandering comet.
Small things keep their own sky.”
“A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.”
“A fallen planet is no easy place to live.
Ya, but heaven is.”
Source: When the Soul Mends
“A fallible being will fail somewhere.”
Source: Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson
“A falling drop at last will carve a stone.”
“A fallow field is a sin.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“A fallow mind is a field of discontent.”
Source: Red Right Return
“A false alarm is sounded that government budget deficits will increase consumer prices — with no discussion of how private-sector credit deflates economies. The problem is that credit is debt — and paying debt service to bankers and bondholders (and various grades of loan sharks) leaves less income available to spend on goods and services. So debt deflation is today’s major problem, not inflation.”
Source: The Bubble and Beyond
“A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.”
“A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.”
“A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.”
“A false fact is what it is: a lie.”
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”
“A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because of sin in our lives, choices made, or wrong turns taken and the regret, guilt, and shame that follows. Other false identities are handed to us by outside sources, maybe a damaging word spoken to us by someone or a childhood of abuse. However, not all false identities are negative on the surface, such as successful, attractive, wealthy, athletic, or talented. But even those identities can become false when we place too much of our weight on them.”
“A false image is, of course, a work of art, an idol. And a lie. A narcissist identifies with this image, not his true inner self. So, all he cares about is his image, not what kind of person he really is. Indeed, the latter has no real existence in his world.
In identifying with his image, he's identifying with an ephemeral figment that has but virtual reality, a purely immanent existence as a reflection in the attention shone on him by others. No attention, no image. No image, no self!”
Source: What Makes Narcissists Tick: Understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder
“A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.”
“A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart.”
“A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!”
Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert