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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live. ↗

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. ↗

— Francine Rivers

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While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane. ↗

— Sam Harris

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The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. ↗

— Charles C. Ryrie

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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise... ↗

— Ibn Hazm

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