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Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that science will or should ever admit. We believers mean something different by the word: something that puts faith permanently in the category of irreproducible results.

~Francis Spufford

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For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

~Francis Spufford

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I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

~Francis Spufford

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It's true that when Christianity is socially powerful, faith can look from the outside as if it is mainly a matter of membership, of participation in the vast synchronised swim of institutions.

~Francis Spufford

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I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

~Francois Hollande

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Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

~Frank Gaffney

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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

~Frank Pittman

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I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

~Frank Wolf

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Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr. - motivated by his faith - brought about an end to segregation in our country.

~Frank Wolf

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Not even Trump's father's wealth, nor his father's faith in his son's destiny, could save Trump from incessant discipline. At the age of 13, he was shipped off to the New York Military Academy, which employed brutal tactics for the remaking of delinquent character, even resorting to violence to assert control over the boys.

~Franklin Foer

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