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Quote by Cyril Connolly
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our fa

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. – Cyril Connolly

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. – Cyril Connolly

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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great. – Gael Garcia Bernal

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God continues to work miracles in my life. – Willie Aames

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That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. – Albert Einstein

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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you dont grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. – Alan Watts

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