I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
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Desire, ask, believe, receive.
Stella Terrill Mann
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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
George E. Woodberry
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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem
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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain
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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
Real Live Preacher RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
Real Live Preacher reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Real Live Preacher RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
Real Live Preacher reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius The Confucian Analects
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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
Henry S. Haskins
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Dan Barker "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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I call hope my "pilot light" because I now know that, without it, we truly cease to exist.
Vickie Girard There's No Place Like Hope: A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mind-Sized Bites
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler The Book of Positive Quotations
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When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.
Zen proverb "Public Lives, Private Prayers" (adapted from the book Public Lives, Private Prayers by Mary Reath), Spirituality and Health , Summer 2001
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Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire.
George Matthew Adams Words for All Occasions
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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Julia Cameron The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desparate.
G.K. Chesterton The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
William Shakespeare (King Richard III) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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All of us are confused and ambivalent at times. We don't know the answer to a problem or we are faced with conflicting answers. Instead of giving up, instead of drowning in doubt, soul growth requires that we forge ahead, that we continue to ask questions and look for answers -- all the while having faith that everything is unfolding in the right manner.
John Gray Handbook for the Soul
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Astound me! I'll wait for you to astound me.
Serge Diaghilev Cassell Companion to Quotations
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Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart

Oscar Hammerstein II The Guinness Chronicle of the 20th-century in Quotations edited by David Milsted
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To know and not do is not yet to know.
Zen saying Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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First believe, then understand.
St. Augustine of Hippo "Faith" Discipleship Journal, Issue Forty
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In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates The Book of Positive Quotations
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Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
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Have faith and the way will open.
Quaker saying "On Minding Your Call – When No One is Calling" by Parker J. Palmer, Weavings, May/June 1996
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The most important direction we can go isn't east or west or north or south, it is inside ourselves. There is a path to your own heart, your own treasure chest, and I would like you to follow it.
Bernie Siegel How to Live Between Office Visits: A Guide to Life, Love and Health
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He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Chinese proverb The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
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...while yearning to overthrow old beliefs, we also thirst for new certainties...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Finding Flow: The Psychololgy of Engagement With Everyday Life
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Perhaps the greatest barrier for any of us for an expanded life is our own deeply held skepticism.
Julie Cameron
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Fear is useless

Martin Sheen "Public Lives, Private Prayers," Spirituality and Health, Summer 2001.
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Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
David Ben-Gurion Love, Medicine and Miracles : Lessons Learned About Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience With Exceptional Patients
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But no one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it. Peace is a margin of power around our daily need. Peace is the consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick Light from Many Lamps
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.
Hebrews 3:14 Holy Bible
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...we need to abandon the idea that wisdom is knowing everything--the whys, the wherefores, the how-tos. Wisdom is often more subtle, both far simpler and exceedingly more complex. For wisdom requires the discerning, the listening to, the acknowledgement of nudges and notions, of senses and sensations, of the minute and what we often mistakenly assume is the mundane. Wisdom means listening to the still, small voice, the whisper that can be easily lost in the whirlwind of busyness, expectations, and conventions of the world....``...as Robert McAfee Brown once wrote, "We must live with the possibility that decisions made in good faith will turn out to be disasters. If so, then the movement of grace will consist in providing enough power to turn even a disaster toward good and useful ends.
Jean M. Blomquist "Fried Dirt and Frayed Faith: Learning to ``Trust Our Own Wisdom" by Jean M. Blomquist. Published in the July/August 1997 issue of Weavings, put out by The Upper Room Press
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We are very near to greatness; one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselvs as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Leap, and the net will appear.
Julie Cameron The Artist's Way
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When people get it into their heads that they are being specially favoured by the Almighty, they had better as a general rule mind their p's and q's.
Samuel Butler Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi The Book of Positive Quotations
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Faith is a function of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi The Book of Positive Quotations
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Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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What goal would you pursue if you knew it was impossible to fail?
Robert Schuller Soar...If You Dare
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If you lose hope, you're just not looking far enough ahead.
Joe Tye Never Fear, Never Quit : A Story of Courage and Perseverance
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Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson Power Quotes
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Faith is something we grow into; doubt is something we grow out of. Gradually. And the movement is not always forward -- out of doubt into faith. It is a line that wavers. As the picture a partially filled cup, we sometimes speculate: is the cup half full, or half empty? If we see faith as the contents of the cup, is it half full of faith, or half full of doubt? And if we look at the cup -- our experience -- and see one-half doubt, is doubt all we see? As God looks at the half-full, half-empty cup, what does He see? The doubt? Or the faith? Or, if faith is nearly a tiny seed -- say, a mustard seed -- can God see it? Is He moved by it? Or is He too busy gazing at the ample doubt that may surround that speck of faith? We know the answer: God sees such faith. And is moved.
James Long "Beyond the shadow of doubt" by James Long, Discipleship Journal, Issue 40.
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I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. I also think they happen every day, from the baby's perfect shoulder in the sonogram, to saints performing wonders.
Peggy Noonan What I saw at the Revolution: A political Life in the Reagan Era
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to reverence.
George Eliot Cassell Companion to Quotations
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Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33 Holy Bible
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We must have infinite faith in each other.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
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Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is of little love.
Erich Fromm Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
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When you do a thing, know that success is within your grasp! All too often we are our own worst enemies. The bottom line is you were made for success!
Josh Hinds Inspiration a Day! mailing list
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Love means to love that which is unloveable,

G.K. Chesterton A Grateful Heart
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Quotes
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Greet the unseen with a cheer.
Robert Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil Words for All Occasions
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Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. But while we wait, we need to prepare symbolically a place for our hopes and dreams.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
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But in the mud and scum of things
``There alway, alway something sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.
Monroe Forester Body, Mind and Spirit
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It has to be dark for the stars to appear.
Warren Wiersbe Be Hopeful
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We must remove the word "impossible" from our vocabulary.
Bernie S. Siegel Love, Medicine and Miracles : Lessons Learned About Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience With Exceptional Patients
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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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First, think.

Walt Disney Soar...If You Dare
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
Thomas Fuller Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi The Book of Positive Quotations
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
James D. Rogers Words for All Occasions
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Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.
Charles D. Brodhead 100 Meditations on Hope
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi The Book of Positive Quotations
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.
Napoleon Hill Soar...If You Dare
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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it -- as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Soar...If You Dare
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It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
Lin Yutang The Importance of Living
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
Thomas Carlyle The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
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God be prais'd, that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
Isaiah 30:15 Holy Bible
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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. People grow old only by deserting their ideals and outgrowing the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul... You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella F. Phelan The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: Give up or fight like hell.
Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor "Armstrong's drive, decency an inspiration" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, August 15, 2001
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When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives, my brothers, don't resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends. Realize that they come to test your faith and to produce in you the quality of endurance. But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed, and you will find you have become men of mature character, men of integrity with no weak spots.
James 1:2-4 Holy Bible
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Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds to flex their trunks and main branches, so that the sap is drawn up to nourish the budding leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in the same way, though we dislike enduring them. A blustery period in our fortunes is often the prelude to a new spring of life and health, success and happiness, when we keep steadfast in faith and look to the good in spite of appearances.
Jane Truax Words for All Occasions
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Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
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... be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Ranier Maria Rilke Simple Abundance
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I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your personal place; that makes you tolerant because you realize your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.
Sir Hugh Walpole Light from Many Lamps
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13 Holy Bible
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