Faith
Quotes - Conscious faith is freedom
“With
hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding,
severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end
to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks,
"Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of
the
Pledge of Allegiance?”
―
Jay Leno
“Her
absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
But
no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes
locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had
such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like
an empty house.”
―
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“We
live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the
skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid
as a cabbage as long as you doubt.”
―
Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“If
we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing
mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion
will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes:
to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”
―
Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“If
it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the
other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies
and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle
“Conscious
faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
―
G.I. Gurdjieff
“If
there is a divine creator, some ultimate moral authority, then why do bad
things happen to good people? And why would this deity create people at all,
since people are such imperfect beings?”
―
R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
“Everyone
is ready for the end of the day, ten-minute group meditation. The meditation is
like the iciest beer you have ever
had
after a hard day’s
work.”
―
Tom Hillman, Digging for God
Shine
your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where
“Shine
your soul with the same
egoless
humility as the rainbow
and
no matter where you go
in
this world or the next,
love
will find you, attend you, and bless you.”
―
Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life
Made Out of Poetry
“God
never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of
commercials.”
―
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
“Intellect
is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.”
―
Tariq Ramadan
“Trust
and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum
potential.”
―
Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
“Yeah.
I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need
someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.”
―
Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire: Action Adventure, Romantic Suspense,
Multicultural interracial
“Faith
is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”
―
Stanislaw Lem
“I
was there and I thought my faith was strong. Authoritarianism is lack of faith
= Lack of faith is authoritarianism.”
―
Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“I
could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
“Never,
ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep
looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find
Mary Poppins.”
―
Steve Kluger, My Most Excellent Year
“It
is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows
me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.”
―
Maya Angelou
“I'm
a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't
you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms
of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.”
―
Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“Have
faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.”
―
Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
“Believe
to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one
faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
