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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exerti

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. – Edgar Allan Poe

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That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. – Dan Brown

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Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend. – Alphonsus Liguori

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Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. – Carter Lindberg

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