Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Edith Hamilton
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  2. I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the... - Jon Katz

  3. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Anonymous

  4. Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. - Joni Eareckson Tada

  5. Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. - Rainer Maria Rilke

More Quotes By Edith Hamilton
  1. Love cannot live where there is no trust.

  2. It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of...

  3. I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we...

  4. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

  5. The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

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