Faith.
Reflections on belief, trust, and the forces that guide us.
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“If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.”
Alan Cohen
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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.”
Andre Gide
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“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
Alexander Pope
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“Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.”
James Dillet Freeman
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“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
Elbert Hubbard
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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
Maya Angelou
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“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
Aesop
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“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.”
George S. Patton
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“God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?”
William Arthur Ward
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Saint Augustine
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“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
Mark Twain
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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
Blaise Pascal
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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
C.S Lewis
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“I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.”
Elie Wiesel
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“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.”
Andre Maurois
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“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”
Elie Wiesel
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“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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“When God says today, the devil says tomorrow.”
German proverbs
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“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.”
Christopher Columbus
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“Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.”
Billy Graham
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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
Anne Frank
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“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
Jean Paul Richter
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
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“Life grows darker as we go on until only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith.”
Anne Swetchine
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“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
Paulo Coelho
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“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
C.S Lewis
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
C.S Lewis
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“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
George S. Patton
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“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.”
Elie Wiesel
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“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
William Shakespeare
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“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”
Isaac Newton
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“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”
Martin Luther
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“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone - quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”
Aldous Huxley