And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

—Gordon Atkinson

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Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.

—Gordon Atkinson

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

—Gordon Atkinson

External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.

—Gordon Atkinson

The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.

—Gordon Atkinson

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

—Gordon Atkinson

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

—Henry S. Haskins

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

—George E. Woodberry

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

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