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    Oscar A. Romero
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    Ephesians 2:10, Romans 8:24-25, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Isaiah 55:8-9, Hebrews 11:33
    It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. . . . We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiah...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Philippians 4:13, 1 Peter 2:9, Colossians 3:10, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Galatians 2:20, Romans 10:9
    We are what we believe we are.

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    Fredrick Langbridge
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    2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Hebrews 11:1, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 42:11, Philippians 4:8
    Because of this we have hope: Two men look out through the same bars One sees mud, one sees stars.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Hebrews 11:1-6, Isaiah 1:18, 1 Peter 3:15, John 1:1, James 1:5, Colossians 2:8, Romans 12:2
    Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

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    Richard Sibbes
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    Colossians 3:2, Philippians 3:20, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Romans 12:2, Hebrews 11:13-16, Matthew 6:19-21, 1 John 2:15-16, Luke 12:33-34, Luke 18:22, Matthew 19:21
    The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Philippians 1:21, Revelation 2:10, Acts 7:59-60, Hebrews 11:35-38, Luke 22:42
    You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Psalm 37:5, Jeremiah 17:7, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Hebrews 11:6
    The man of pseudo-faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get in a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself w...

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    Austin Fischer
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    2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Timothy 6:20-21, Romans 12:2, Colossians 2:8, James 1:5-6, Hebrews 11:1
    By misinterpreting the Enlightenment and the corresponding rise of empiricism as an existential threat to Christian faith, many frightened Christians sequestered themselves into rooms of certitude.

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    Paul E. Little
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    James 1:5, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Hebrews 11:1, Romans 1:20, Isaiah 55:8-9, 1 Corinthians 2:14, John 8:32
    Belief doesn’t create truth. Unbelief doesn’t destroy truth. Christian faith goes beyond reason but not against reason.

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    Flannery O'Connor
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    Psalm 46:10, John 20:29, Psalm 23:4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 50:10, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
    People...think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross...You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect faith to clea...

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    What Do You Believe Doc?

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    D. Michael Lindsay
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    1 Peter 1:8-9, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Mark 9:24, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 10:17, Hebrews 11:6
    In a quiet hospital room in North Carolina, an eager young doctor with a bright future evaluates his elderly patient with not much future left at all. She has a terminal heart condition, inoperable. A...

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    Following Jesus Requires Real Commitment

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    Bradley Long
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    Proverbs 3:5-8, Matthew 22:37, Romans 12:1-2, Luke 14:26-27, Deuteronomy 6:5, Luke 16:13, Mark 12:30, John 14:15, Matthew 16:24-26, Luke 9:59-62, Matthew 6:24, Hebrews 11:13-16, Hebrews 10:38-39, Matthew 6:33-34, Matthew 10:37-39
    What are you willing to do for love? An instructor for the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course shared with a class the major hang-up he had to get over before asking his wife to ma...

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    John 15:4-5, 1 John 3:18-19, Matthew 7:21, Romans 10:9-10, Hebrews 11:1, Galatians 2:20
    I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propos...

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
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    James 1:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 2:5, Romans 10:17, Proverbs 3:5-6, John 20:29, Hebrews 11:1
    Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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    Jeanne d'Arc
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    Galatians 2:20, 1 John 3:16, Matthew 16:25, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Timothy 4:7, Philippians 1:21
    Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One l...

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    Robert Oxton Bolt
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    Matthew 22:37, Ephesians 4:23-24, Isaiah 26:3, Hebrews 11:1, Colossians 3:2, Philippians 2:5
    A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

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    Emotions, Language, and the Experience of Homesickness

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    Jen Pollock Michel
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    Hebrews 11:13-16, 2 Corinthians 5:1-2, John 14:2-3, Revelation 21:3-4, Matthew 8:19-20, Luke 9:57-58
    In her book Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home , Jen Pollock Michel reflects on the nature of home in a transient age. In this short excerpt, Michel focuses on the language associate...

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    L. J. Suenens
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 5:3-5, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 15:13, Isaiah 40:31, Proverbs 23:18, Psalm 33:22
    Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Romans 5:3-5, Hebrews 11:1, Psalm 42:11, Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Romans 8:24-25, Isaiah 40:31
    We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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    Vaclav Havel
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    Romans 8:28, Hebrews 11:1, Jeremiah 29:11, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 55:8-9, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
    Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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    Let us Trust Our Own Moments of Vision

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    Prince
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    1 Peter 1:8-9, Romans 8:24-25, John 20:29, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 40:31, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7
    I remember once near Interlaken waiting for days to see the Jungfrau which was hidden in mists. People told me it was there, and I should have been a fool to doubt their word, for those who told me li...

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    Romans 15:13, Hebrews 11:1, Jeremiah 29:11, Psalm 33:18, Romans 5:5
    Hope is passion for what is possible.

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    Clement of Alexandria
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    Hebrews 11:8-10, Luke 1:38, Matthew 21:22 , Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 1:6, James 1:2-4
    Faith is a voluntary anticipation.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    1 Corinthians 13:13, Titus 2:11-13, Hebrews 11:1, Philippians 3:20, 1 Peter 1:3-4, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Romans 8:24-25
    Hope is one of the Theological virtues. A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not as some modern people think, a form of escapism or wishful thinking. But it's one of the great thing...

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    Jennie Allen
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:21-23
    Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Isaiah 42:16, Psalm 27:1, 2 Corinthians 4:6, John 8:12, Hebrews 11:1, 1 John 1:7, John 12:46
    In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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    Lauren F. Winner
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    Proverbs 3:5-6, Philippians 4:6-7, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 1:5-6, Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 4:11-13, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
    Maybe God has given some people belief like a pier, to stand on (and God has given those people’s steadiness to the church, to me, as a reminder, as an aid), and maybe God has given others something e...

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    Ken Untener
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    1 Corinthians 15:58, 2 Timothy 4:7-8, Hebrews 11:13, Galatians 6:9, Philippians 1:6
    "Oscar Romero's Prayer" It helps, now and then,to step back and take the long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime onl...

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    Doubt is in Everyone

    Author
    John Ortberg
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    Jeremiah 29:13, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 8:24-25, Hebrews 11:1, John 20:27
    Writer Michael Novak says that doubt is not so much a dividing line that separates people into different camps, as it is a razor’s edge that runs through every soul. Many believers tend to think doubt...

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    Curt Thompson
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    2 Corinthians 5:7, Psalm 37:5, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 17:7-8, Hebrews 11:1
    We are invariably made for faith, to operate out of a need to trust something we cannot control.
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