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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.


Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.


Lech Walesa
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We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.
John Wycliffe
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I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.
Joyce Meyer
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.


Babe Ruth
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If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.
Charles Spurgeon
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Denis Diderot
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I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
Donald Cargill
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I try to act out of faith.


Marian Wright Edelman
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Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.
George Washington Carver
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.


J. William Fulbright
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.


Henrik Ibsen
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No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.


Robert Baden-Powell
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.


Mencius
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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
Pope Benedict XVI
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.


Ayn Rand
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.


Margaret Fuller
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