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— Charles Caleb Colton"We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it."
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Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
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