Faith Healing Quotes

• Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would God bother to perform a miracle that enabled Sol Campbell to yell Oh holy Jesus, now I can win the ball in the air. It's been five years since I could defend from corners, brothers and sisters, it's a miracle.

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  Mark Steel

  Soccer   Football   Jesus  

  “Spot the balls” by Mark Steel, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 1999.

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• One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

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  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Jesus   Real   Healing  

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• Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

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  Robert M. Price

  Healing   Mean   Biblical  

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• Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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  Corrie Ten Boom

  Trust   Faith   God  

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• Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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  Agnes Repplier

  Healing   Political   Doubt  

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”

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• It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

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  John Dewey

  Philosophy   Healing   Technique  

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• Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

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  Oral Roberts

  Inspirational   God   Faith  

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• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.

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  Carl Sagan

  Atheist   Healing   Issues  

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• Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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  Eckhart Tolle

  Faith   Prayer   Believe  

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• Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

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  Hippocrates

  Get Well   Healing   Health  

  'Precepts' ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)

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• Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

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  Christopher Hitchens

  Philosophy   Believe   Healing  

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• Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.

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  Florence King

  Christian   Kings   Cheer  

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.33, Macmillan

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