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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 Gods 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
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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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"convinced myself, I seek not to convince." »Edgar Allan Poe
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice." »Albert Einstein
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"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail." »Philip
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"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself" »Sir Richard F. Burton
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice." »Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
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"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." »Sir Richard Francis Burton
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"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." »Laurens Van der Post
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"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb." »Nadine Gordimer
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." »Victor Hugo
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"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity." »Charles Dudley Warner
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"I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience." »Shakti Gawain
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"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself." »Aldous Huxley
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"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." »Peter Ustinov
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"I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired." »Richard Wagner
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"Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else." »Ingrid Weir
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"A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate." »La Rochefoucauld
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"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another." »Ellen Goodman
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"As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so." »Charles De Gaulle
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"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God." »Albert Coombs Barnes
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"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well." »Mary Cholmondeley
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"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice." »Albert Einstein
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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves." »Wilhelm von Humboldt
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"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." »Rabbi Harold Kushner
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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves." »Alexander Humboldt
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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means." »George Bernard Shaw
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"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." »T. S. Eliot
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"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail." »Charles A. Beard
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"[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination." »Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997)
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