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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. – Walter Kaufmann

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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddhas atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. – Walter Kaufmann

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respect
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Walter Kaufmann
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. – Walter Kaufmann

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Faith
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To know a persons religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. – Eric Hoffer

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It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I cant do it and I wont do it. – Joey Skaggs

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Im still going to make mistakes, but I dont have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ. – Scott Stapp

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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. – Robert Collier

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