#eli

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#memory #the-cookie #faith

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #conviction #definition #faith

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works? ↗

— Diane Duane

#change #faith #life #magic #universe

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#god #religion #reverence #faith

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#secularism #faith

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#faith

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, we when are impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best - better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than his. Either way, we are questioning the reality of God's omnicience. ↗

— Neil A. Maxwell

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If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#glbt #god #lesbian #love #personal-faith

Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren