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“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”

Source: The Man and the Book Nobody Knows

“The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.”

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Book:The Counterfeiters: A Novel

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt.”

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Author:Billy Bray

“Believing requires action.”

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Author:James E. Faust

“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”

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

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“No amount of belief makes something a fact.”

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Author:James Randi

“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.”

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

“Without worship, we go about miserable.”

“When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.”

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Book:The Miracle of Motivation: The Guide to Becoming Everything You Want to Be

Source: The Miracle of Motivation: The Guide to Becoming Everything You Want to Be

“A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.”

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Author:F. F. Bosworth

“It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.”

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Author:Lee Strobel

“Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.”

“Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying”

“Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.”

Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope. First series

“Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.”

Source: Prayer

“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”

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Book:The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations

Source: The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations

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

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.”

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Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.”

Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters

“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.”

Source: God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift

“The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.”

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.”

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Author:Claude Bernard

“Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.”

“Come to God for your healing. Don't hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.”

Source: Healing Promises

“The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.”

“God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.”

“All my life I've believed in myself. And I have never given up.”

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Author:Curtis Pride

“It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.”

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Author:Marjory Stephenson

“Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but reasoning must allow us to distinguish, among facts that have been reported, those that we can fully believe, those that are questionable, and those that are false. It will not allow us to lend faith to those that are directly contrary to others whose certainty is known to us; it will not allow us to accept as true those that fly in the face of unquestionable principles.”

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Author:Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

“At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.”

“The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.”

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Book:Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking

Source: Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking

“I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.”

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Author:Charles Hard Townes

“Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.”

“God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.”

“Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it. I don't understand television, but I accept it. I don't understand radio, but every week my voice goes out around the world, and I accept it. Why is it so easy to accept all these man-made miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?”

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Author:Billy Graham

“Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.”

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Author:Noah Porter

“Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.”

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Book:Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World

Source: Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World

“Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.”

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Author:Edward Schillebeeckx

“As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.”

Source: Morning and Evening

“God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.”

“We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.”

Source: Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”