“I don't consider myself a “religious” person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith.”
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 134
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As quoted in Church and Home, Vol. 1 (1964) by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church, p. 21.
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