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Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.

— Frederick William Faber

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Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Spiritual Conferences (1859)

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Spiritual Conferences (1859)

We must have passed through life very unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Spiritual Conferences (1859)

To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

Spiritual Conferences (1859)

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

The Creator and the Creature (1858)

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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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