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  ...wants either to believe or disbelieve the Christian miracles he can do so if he tries hard enough; but if he does not care whether he believes or disbelieves and simply wants to find out which side has the best of it, this he will find a more difficult matter. Nevertheless he will probably be able to do this too if he tries.
Faith
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The reason why the early Christians held faith in such account was because they felt it to be a feat of such superhuman difficulty.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.  
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We are all agreed that too much faith is as bad as too little, and too little as bad as too much; but we differ as to what is too much and what too little.
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It is because both Catholics and myself make faith, not reason, the basis of our system that I am able to be easy in mind about not becoming a Catholic. Not that I ever wanted to become a Catholic, but I mean I believe I can beat them with their own weapons.
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A man may have faith as a mountain, but he will not...   Butler, Samuel

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