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In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

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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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Shoulders are from God, and burdens too. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof. ↗

— Robert L. Short

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. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade. ↗

— Alice Fulton

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The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge. ↗

— George Eliot

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God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

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S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.) ↗

— Voltaire

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