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To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself. ↗

— Anonymous

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted. ↗

— Adrian Rogers

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The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

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He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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You broke up with me, and I spend one night with one guy who turns out to be the reason I’m even here, in domestic BLISS with your grouchy ass, and you can’t spare an evening for dinner? You are a dick. ↗

— Tere Michaels

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People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe… ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, "Do you believe in God?" His eyes narrow for a moment and he stares at me at me for a while. Stares in a rather intense way, like a doctor looking at a troubling X-ray. Then he looks out the and says in a voice like shattered glass, "Only in storms. ↗

— Rebecca Sparrow

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Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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