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

— Carl L. Becker

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

— Philip Rieff

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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

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I have faith in the Lord, God Damnit. ↗

— Dawn M. Williams

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Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf. ↗

— José Rizal

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Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human. ↗

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

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He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes. ↗

— Émile Zola

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You take away whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition assigns to people of other faith traditions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 52) ↗

— David R. Smock

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When I see a church auditorium start to resemble a mosh pit, I know something's wrong. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

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