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Lasting joys the man attend Who has a faithful female friend. ↗

— Cornelius Whur

#faith

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness) ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life #life

To question reason is to trust it. ↗

— Mitch Stokes

#kant #philosophy #reason #shot-of-faith-to-the-head #faith

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity. ↗

— D.A. Carson

#historic-christian-orthodoxy #philosophy-of-preaching #faith

Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods." "Do you?" "I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#gods #faith

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn’t respond to our needs and requests. ↗

— Gerald Lawson Sittser

#faith

Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it. ↗

— Kathleen Huggins

#faith

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #friendship #hope #inspiration #inspirational

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#faith

Вера в себя способна творить такие же чудеса, как вера в Господа Бога. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#self-confidence #faith