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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
— Alice Walker
I am so dedicated, so passionate, and that counts for more than what crazy people throw at me.
— Dani Alves
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
— Stanley Hauerwas
If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Those who turn to the Master with open hearts will feel his power and experience peace.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
— St. Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
— St. Augustine
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
— St. Augustine
I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me.
— St. Augustine
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
— St. Augustine