#ai

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#faith #imagination #justice #love #peace

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews. ↗

— Prince

#i #interviews #just #might #stop

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father. ↗

— John Ortberg Jr.

#god #jesus #joy #prayer #presence

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life #faith

We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great. ↗

— Roy Wood

#came #did #door #fancy #great

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#wisdom #faith

maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#faith

Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight. ↗

— David Wong

#religion #faith

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mind #religion #spirit #faith

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. It is intellectual bankruptcy. ↗

— Dan Barker

#faith #faith