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Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope. ↗

— Mary Karr

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From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully. ↗

— Robert Schumann

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Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy. ↗

— Kathleen McGowan

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You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right. ↗

— Deborah Brodie

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What the hell are you getting so upset about?" he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. "I thought you didn't believe in God." "I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be. ↗

— Joseph Heller

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Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards. ↗

— Jeb Bradley

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As your faith is strengthened, you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit. ↗

— Emmanuel Teney

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We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ... ↗

— Calvin Miller

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As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking. ↗

— Thomas Lye

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We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles. ↗

— Paul Torday

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