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“To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.”

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Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”

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Author:George McGovern

“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.”

Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology

“Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“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

“Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.”

“We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.”

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.”

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Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."”

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Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.”

“Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.”

“God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.”