“Faith doesn't have to be much. Not any bigger than a mustard seed... That small. Only that much faith you'll need in me, God says, because I am so big. I am the Great I Am. So have faith in me.”
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“Hit ain't sacrilege. Miss Effie Belle says when she cain't think what to have for dinner, she asts God and right off He gives her an idea. To my thinkin', thet's sacrilege."Miss Love really laughed. "There's not a woman in the world who hasn't prayed what to cook for dinner, Rucker!”
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“People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural.”
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“Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.”
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“To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.”
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“Hardships are the Lord's greatest blessings to the believer. Without them we would love the Lord only for what He does for us. Our troubles teach us to love Him for who He is."Sister Norton in "The Preacher's Bride”
“Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.”
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“[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.”
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“You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.”
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
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“Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.”
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“[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.”
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“Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.”
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“And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.”
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“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
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