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The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying
I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.
This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.
I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.
Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.
I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.
Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.