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The atheist confirms faith. And like a guinea pig that confirms my thesis or my faith in God.

— Jean Guitton

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Unlike Calvino, you bring the soul into the designs of merciful predestination without any element of anguish.

Generals do not fight with the fear of the troops, they prefer to keep them busy.

In the spiritual life, to grow means to simplify and simplify oneself, to become closer to uncreated and ineffable simplicity.

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

For Teresa, the way of Mary is a way of faith, without ecstasy, without miracles, even without words.

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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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