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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

John Greenleaf Whittier

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

John Henry Newman

It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

John Henry Newman

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

John Henry Newman

Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

John Henry Newman

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

John Henry Newman

Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

John Hutchinson

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

John Lancaster Spalding

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

John Lancaster Spalding

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

The presence of the Holy Spirit isthe keystone of all our hopes.

John Nelson Darby

The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

John of Damascus