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Their faith alone will not profit them, because they have not done works of righteousness.

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Do you consider a man to be a Christian by whose bread no hungry man is ever filled?

We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.

Let no man judge himself to be a Christian, unless he is one who both follows the teaching of Christ and imitates his example.

The best incentive for the mind consists in teaching it that it is possible to do anything which one really wants to do.

Unless a man has despised worldly things, he shall not receive those which are divine.

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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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