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- If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
- Author Unknown
- Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
- Ellen G. White
- It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
- Edwin Markham
- The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne
- William M. Evarts
- Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated
- Tyron Edwards
- If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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