#belief

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#christianity #god #nature #trinity #faith

In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear. ↗

— Michelle Sagara West

#belief #age

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fairies #faith #magic #stories #faith

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#superstition #traditions-history #experience

I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality as it is, including the acceptance of the unknown. An interesting way to understand the difference is to use the words interchangeably in the same sentence: I believe in Santa Claus. I have faith in Santa Claus. Belief can impede spiritual unfoldment; faith is supremely necessary for it. ↗

— Judith Hanson Lasater

#faith #experience

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#belief #faith #follow-your-bliss #life #faith

And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#faith #god #faith

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen. ↗

— Kate Braverman

#deja-vu #faith #prophecy #teen #thirteen

What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure? ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#faith #faith

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#faith #people #wisdom #faith