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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. – Dean Inge

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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. – Dean Inge

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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. – Dean Inge

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. – Hal Borland

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

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Vision looks upward and becomes faith. – Stephen Samuel Wise

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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth. – Owen Glendower

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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. – Blaise Pascal

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We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. – Tom Baker

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesnt want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen. – George Bernard Shaw

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You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. – Cindy Crawford

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