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A promise is only as good as the person who makes it. The character of the promiser is what gives the promise its value. His promises are meant to ignite faith and expectation and desire, and then to point us to Him. His promises act to bind our hearts to His. His promises turn our eyes toward Him. When our hearts are occupied with who He is, it will not be hard to believe what He promises to do. The revelation of His person is the secret to trusting His promises. ↗

— Jennifer K Dean

#faith

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#reason #religion #faith

In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x axis of faith intersects with the y axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

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Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased. ↗

— Philip Rieff

#religion #faith

He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say. ↗

— Dan Brown

#belief #faith #religion #faith

There is only one faith, one love and one hope. The rest is imitation! ↗

— Isaias Doleo

#hope #faith

I have faith in the Lord, God Damnit. ↗

— Dawn M. Williams

#religion #faith

He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer. ↗

— K.D. Sarge

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It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on. ↗

— Amos Tversky

#truth #faith

‎"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing. ↗

— Billy Graham

#victory #faith