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I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#mitch-albom #faith

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts. ↗

— Will Durant

#faith #philosophy #rome #faith

I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed ↗

— Francesca Marciano

#love #pain #love

You took my heart and you held it in your mouth And, with a word all my love came rushing out And, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single word There is a hollow in me now... And Every whisper, every sigh Eats away at this heart of mine And there is a hollow in me now. So I put my faith in something unknown I'm living on such sweet nothing But I'm trying to hope with nothing to hold I'm living on such sweet nothing. ↗

— Florence Welch

#hopelessness #love #love-hurts #faith

In the years of living this life of faith, I have never known God's care to fail. ↗

— Brother Andrew

#god-s-provision #faith

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#privacy #secret #wisdom #faith

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#love #religion #faith

I may have the faith needed to move mountains-but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned-but if I have no love, this does me no good. ↗

— Anonymous

#inspiration #love #religion #the-holy-bible #faith

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #cliche #come #different #diverse

...Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of thought; now they have become rationalizations for relativism and uncertainty. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#skepticism #faith