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We should not rely on our feelings; we had to walk by faith and not by sight. If we preserve in the Lord, we always succeed. ↗

— Angus Buchan

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith. ↗

— Jojo Moyes

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Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the fairly large certainty that you'll wake up in the morning. Fear only has as much power as we give it space. ↗

— Josh Ritter

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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace–bottle after bottle of pure distilate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the Gospel–after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps–suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started…Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, not the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

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God’s revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of human brains to adorn or enforce it; but it does demand the simplicity, the docility, humility, and faith of a child’s heart. ↗

— E.M. Bounds

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On the subject of who is to blame for our disunity - “The easy conclusion- that the devil is at work trying to destroy the church- is true, but itʼs not the whole story. Of course the enemy is at work doing that. But closer examination shows that much of the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the church itself-on believers in god-and how our own devilish deeds have alienated other followers of God. Sadly, weʼve done the devilʼs work for him. ↗

— Ed Galisewski

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A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5) ↗

— Edna Hong

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They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that. ↗

— Koushun Takami

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