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We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. ↗

— Martin Luther

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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control. ↗

— Dan Brown

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You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. ↗

— Rick Warren

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Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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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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