"What is faith? Faith is trusting God for your problems and for your life."

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“God wants to help us and will bear our burdens.”

“David, the man after God’s own heart, got right to it and spilled out his guts about his experience: “How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?”

“Open your heart and your sad feelings to Him and the safe people He brings to you.”

“We want to know that life is good. Not perfect but good. Not problem free, but good. Good in some way that we did not anticipate. Good in some way that connects us to God, others, and our purposes in life.”

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“The message of Scripture is that God wants us to connect both with Him and also with each other.”

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"In the realm of faith, God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. To rationalists He is something after which they seek in the darkness …"

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philosophy1907–1972

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"Faith Is Not Credulity."

— Ronald Fisher

Science1890–1962

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"Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere …"

— Dick Francis

Literature1920–2010

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