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" Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. "

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" While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. "

Henry David Thoreau

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" We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. "

" Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. "

" Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. "

" The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. "

" Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. "

" In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. "

" Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.' "

" My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. "

" I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it. "

" I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. "

" First, I prepare. Then I have faith. "

" Having women who are already successful take the leap of faith to help younger women is critical. "

" I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. "

" My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim. "

" Goodness is the only investment that never fails. "

" We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith. "

" Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. "

" Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. "

" In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. "

" Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. "

" It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. "

" Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. "

" Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master. "

" The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. "

" I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion? "

" There is no remedy for love but to love more. "

Henry David Thoreau

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" Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. "

" A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error. "

" The perception of beauty is a moral test. "