Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
Dean Inge
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- Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
- Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
- Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
- All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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