#faith

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#blessing #faith #friends #hear #kept

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#jane-yellowrock #paranormal-romance #skinwalker #urban-fantasy #faith

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#experience

Is a faith without action a sincere faith? ↗

— Jean Racine

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Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. ↗

— Thomas Becket

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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #deals #fact #faith #lies