Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. —William Ellery Channing More about this quote Tags: love faith aspiration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have a friend who has devoted most of his adult life to resisting the madness of war through actions of justice and peace. He . . . lives in poverty so as to stay below the taxation level. . . . The money he "should" have given the government over the years he has donated to peace-and-justice projects. Does he have any results to show for his efforts? Has he been effective? Hardly — at least, not by the normal calculus. His years of commitment to peacemaking have been years of steady increase in wars and rumors of wars. So how does he stay healthy and sane? How does he maintain a commitment to this sort of active life? "I have never asked myself if I was being effective," he says, "but only if I was being faithful." He judges his action not by the results it gets, but by its fidelity to his own calling and identity. —Parker J. Palmer More about this quote Tags: justice war peace identity poverty government faith calling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. —Dwight L. Moody More about this quote Tags: love easy faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: faith atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. —Robert Browning More about this quote Tags: faith doubt proof Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Dan Barker More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. —J. R. R. Tolkien More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God, I don't have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly. —Shakti Gawain More about this quote Tags: faith Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email