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By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar terrritory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

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عندما يمنحك الله الحياة ، من واجبك (ومن حقك ككائن بشري) أن تجد شيئًا جميلًا فيها ، مهما كان ضئيلًا ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#god #life #novel #faith

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises. ↗

— Francis Chan

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Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. ↗

— Louie Giglio

#pride #religion #selflessness #faith

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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