#do

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog! ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dogs #egotism #faithfulness #friends #friendship

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#faith

If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#flyleaf #hope #inspirational #jesus #love

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence. ↗

— Simone Weil

#faith #faith

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks. ↗

— Mark Buchanan

#doubt #god #faith

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confirmation #confirmed #creativity #error

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace. ↗

— Haim Shapira

#things-that-matter #wisdom #life

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." (History Will Teach Us Nothing) ↗

— Sting

#dogma #faith #fundamentalism #radicalism #reason

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good... ↗

— Milan Kundera

#dogma #faith #history #machiavellian #moderation

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#faith #grass #steel #stone #faith