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1 " Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself. "
― Haruki Murakami , Norwegian Wood
2 " My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”I exploded:“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. "
― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
3 " There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. "
― Alfred Tennyson
4 " To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ. "
― Dwight L. Moody , The Overcoming Life
5 " Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope. "
― Mary Karr
6 " I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream. "
― Sheila Walsh , Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
7 " I’ve got more faith in my shotgun than any man, that’s for sure. "
― Kerrelyn Sparks , The Undead Next Door (Love at Stake, #4)
8 " There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in Christ. Sometimes prayer, meditation and contemplation are 'death' - a kind of descent into our own nothingness, a recognition of helplessness, frustration, infidelity, confusion, ignorance. Note how common this theme is in the Psalms. If we need help in meditation we can turn to scriptural texts that express this profound distress of man in his nothingness and his total need of God. Then as we determine to face the hard realities of our inner life and humbly for faith, he draws us out of darkness into light - he hears us, answers our prayer, recognizes our need, and grants us the help we require - if only by giving us more faith to believe that he can and will help us in his own time. This is already a sufficient answer. "
― Thomas Merton , Contemplative Prayer
9 " What did you think about?" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either. " I thought about angels," I say." Angels?" " You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven." " Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?" He asks." I don't know. No. Do you?" " I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. " That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have. "
10 " He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing "
― Chang-rae Lee , On Such a Full Sea
11 " A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything. "
― Lydia Netzer
12 " The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. "
13 " Had I realized while on Earth," he said, " that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in the teachings of religion. As it was, I actually doubted its existence. A foolish error, cherie. I am pleased to say that you have converted me completely." " I, too," observed Mr. Hamilton, helping himself to wine, " was something of an unbeliever in my time, and while never quite an atheist, like my arch-enemy Jefferson, I was still inclined to look upon Satan as merely a myth. Imagine my satisfaction to find him ruling a monarchy! You know I spent the greater part of my earthly existence fighting Mr. Jefferson and his absurd democratic ideas and now look at the damn country! Run by morons! "
14 " There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds "
15 " There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds. "
16 " Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them. "
