#be

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. ↗

— Criss Jami

#convincing #doubt #faith #honesty #inspiration

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #faith #humanism

I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#faith #nonbelievers #skeptical #faith

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#faith-of-the-fallen #richard-rahl #faith

Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #faith #japan #life #religion

Let me put it this way," he said, sliding a pair of knives into his belt. The faint light that filtered through the stained-glass windows threw squares of colour across his face. "My father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto - 'Because God wills it.' It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went out to battle and were slaughtered, just like my father. And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#death #faith #god #religion #death

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#faith #inspiration #faith

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#common-sense #confusion #disbelief #evidence #faith

Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid. ↗

— Craig Silvey

#craig-silvey #faith #fear #jasper-jones #people