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    And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too,
    not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do
    not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and
    rightly--faith in God.

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Faith is a passionate intuition.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

by William Wordsworth Found in: Faith Quotes,
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

by Abraham Cowley Found in: Faith Quotes,
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the read more

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

by Lillian Smith Found in: Faith Quotes,
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Faith Quotes,
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"Take courage, soul!
Hold not thy strength in vain!
With faith o'ercome the steeps
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"Take courage, soul!
Hold not thy strength in vain!
With faith o'ercome the steeps
Thy God hath set for thee.
Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain
Lieth thine Italy."

by Rose Terry Cooke Found in: Faith Quotes,
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man read more

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

by Charles Peguy Found in: Faith Quotes,
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'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.

by Friedrich Nietzche Found in: Faith Quotes,
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

by Saint Augustine Found in: Faith Quotes,
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? read more

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

by Jackie Mason Found in: Faith Quotes,
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