Faith Quotes

Belief in something greater, whether divine, human, or simply possible.

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"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."
Don Quixote
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"I believe, but I do not know why I believe."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Miracles are the only possible manifestation of truth in a world of sin."
Ivan Karamazov
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"I am not rebelling against my maker. I am only not accepting his creation."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Life is everything. Life is God"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"In every man there is a spark of divine truth"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Suffering purifies and ennobles the soul."
Sonya
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"Society's judgment is often harsher than God's."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Thou and I, Hester, never knew what prayer is."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Thy will be done!"
Hester Prynne
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"The world's judgment is not the voice of God."
Hester Prynne
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase."
Platon Karataev
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"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The world is full of enchantments for those who believe in them."
Don Quixote
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"Truth lies in the heart, not in reason."
Sonya
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"The heart knows what the mind refuses to accept."
Sonya
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"If there is no God, then everything is permitted."
Ivan Karamazov
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"God exists, but I cannot accept His world."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of"
Sonya
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"Redemption comes not from punishment, but from love and acceptance"
Sonya
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"Forgiveness is the only path to freedom from the chains of guilt"
Sonya
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"For us, with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, there is nothing for which there is no hope."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"God is not outside of us, but within us."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Faith is the substance of things hoped for"
Don Quixote
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"The heart of a good man is a celestial fortress."
Abbé Faria
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"In this world, there are but two certainties: suffering and redemption."
Abbé Faria
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"Suffering is the price of redemption."
Abbé Faria
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"Religion is the opium of the people."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing."
Rodolphe Boulanger