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"If the soul be faithful and humble, the Lord will not cease until He has raised it from one step to another, even to Divine union and transformation." Ascent of Mount Carmel (St. John of the Cross) |
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"Faith is not simply a matter of holding something to be true but of experiencing the breath of eternal God, bestowing being." Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition (Valentin Tomberg) |
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"The choices you make are always and only motivated by either faith or fear." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss) |
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"I release into this universe my trust that my journey in life and all who walk my path with me are there by divine design." Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles (Caroline Myss) |
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"He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith. Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to Truth and Love." Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1848), Hindu statesman and mystic, 'Gandhi's Ideas' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor) |
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"There is nothing that prevents us from having faith. For if we want it with all our heart, it will immediately become active in us, since it is God's gift to us and a pre-eminent characteristic of our nature." St. Symeon the New Theologian, 'On Faith' The Philokalia, volume 4 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios) |
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"Only a long and patient struggle can teach us the operative power of faith and show us what it can achieve." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin) |
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"Absence of doubt is trusting in the heart, trusting yourself. Being without doubt means that you have connected with yourself." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa) |
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"Though we have lost our way ten thousand times, the longing just beyond the boundaries of the ordinary mind continues to trust and taste. We are irrationally hopeful, and that's often what it takes." Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey (Stephen Levine) |
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"Faith is an active creative force." J. H. Oldham, Scottish-born ecumenist The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers) |
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"Faith is the foundation of justice, the bond of amity, and chief support of society; we live and walk by faith." A Dictionary of Freemasonry (Robert Macoy) |
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"Cast all your cares upon the Lord, and he will direct them. Believe in God…because he can do all things." The Shepherd of Hermas, Vision IV, v. 21 The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden (various) |
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"Faith is the key that opens the door to the sacred." Doors to the Sacred: A Historical Introduction to the Sacraments of the Catholic Church (Joseph Martos) |
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"Henceforth proceed with Faith to shine in the depths of the world." The Paraphrase of Shem (Gnostic text, ca. 1st century bce), The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor) |
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"Faith….does not depend upon a dogma or doctrine, it has its source within you. All work within you and by you requires this Faith, which is the non-reasoned certitude that the goal aimed at is real." Nature Word (R. A. Schwaller deLubicz) |
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"Trust IS within you whether or not you recognize it…and no matter how your mind questions, it rides securely in the great creativity of the soul." The 'Unknown' Reality (Jane Roberts) |
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"This indeed is faith – not a vague sentiment of the soul adhering to a doctrine without rational motivation, nor a mysticism without sure proofs, nor yet an intellectualist certainty imposed necessarily by the evidence of irresistible proofs – but an intellectual adherence to truths which are guaranteed in testimony worthy of credence and illustrated, once believed, in all the facts of the universe." Richard McKeon, introduction to St. Augustine Selections From Medieval Philosophers (Richard McKeon, editor and translator) |
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"The spirit within us has faith that our needs will always be met." Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles (Caroline Myss) |
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"There is every reason to have faith in the rightness of things…this quality of faith is like a steady inner essence which is never diminished within the soul." The Flowering Tree (Gladys V. Jones) |
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"Confucius believed in the one God over all." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder) |
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"If enough people believe in something, they can make it happen as their collective energies come together to fill in their shared vision." Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium (Elizabeth Clare Prophet) |
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"Faith is a habit which perfects humanity's reason or intellect." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy) |
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"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." Oswald Chambers Living Quotations for Christians (Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors) |
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"Unquestionably, faith is vital for managing the challenges of our everyday existence." Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (Caroline Myss) |
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"When we have fought to the bitter end to develop ourselves and win through, and find ourselves halted, beaten, by the forces of this world, then, if we believe, the power with which we clash so agonizingly suddenly ceases to be a blind or evil energy. Hostile matter vanishes. And, in its place, we find the divine Master of the world who under the 'species and appearance' of each and every event, moulds us, empties us of our self-love, and penetrates into us." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin) |
This body of quotes compiled by
JoAnn Kite