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Faith Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
- Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
- There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great…
- Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
- Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are…
- Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in…
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- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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