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Faith is a simple trust in a personal Redeemer. The simpler our trust in Christ for all things, the surer our peace.

— William Adams Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1883)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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