“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
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“Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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