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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to G

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer. – William Ames

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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. – William Ames

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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. – William Ames

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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. – William Ames

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I had lost faith in biography. – A. N. Wilson

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Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry. – Sally Kirkland

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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. – Alan Watts

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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. – Arthur Ashe

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You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave. – Giuseppe Garibaldi

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All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light. – Rumi

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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. – Werner Herzog

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