All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
Dean Inge
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. -
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. -
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
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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.
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- Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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