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“If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.”

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Author:Francis Quarles

“I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.”

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Book:After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.”

Firsts Faith Grows Answers Exercise Ears Soil Blades Corn Great Faith Moisture

Author:Smith Wigglesworth

“Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”

Faith Teach Praying Exercise Temptation

Book:Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire

Source: Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire

“Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.”

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Book: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

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

“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.”

“Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.”

“We cannot exercise our faith beyond what we believe to be possible.”

Believe Faith Exercise

Author:John G. Lake

“The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.”

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.”

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Author:Leonard of Port Maurice

“The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.”

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Book:The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth