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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. ↗

— Stendhal

#philosophy-religion #faith

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Society lives by faith, and develops by science. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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We seek in one another the assurance that there is just one correct interpretation of the world, that everything is so simple that anybody can see it unless they're malicious or stupid or willfully ignorant; and we punish one another for proving with our differing conclusions that the truth is not that easy. We think we must suppress dissension to present the unified front we need to gain power over our enemies. But there are pro-life Democrats, pro-choice Christians, feminists who love their families, and conservatives who care about poor people. ↗

— Alisa Harris

#politics #social-justice #faith

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

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