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Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.

— Robert Hugh Benson Lord of the World (1907)

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Remorse is easy enough, but repentance means love; and a soul that has lost her Lover has lost her own power of loving.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Religion always is and always has been at the root of every world-movement.

The Dawn of All (1911)

Man’s highest life does not consist in self-expression, but in self-sacrifice.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Every man may err, but not the whole gathered together; for the whole hath a promise, but so hath not every particular man.

By What Authority? (1905)

If a soul lives long enough on the plane of sensuality or of ambition, she finds that Christ is worth less than nothing there.

Christ in the Church (1911)

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

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

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.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

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

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

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

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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