#fait

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn. ↗

— Beth Hoffman

#inspirational #faith

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#philosophy #faith

You've got to learn to stand your ground and," she flicked her feet in a little Irish stepdance and sang, "you've got to have faith, faith, faith." My jaw dropped. "You're kidding me, right? You're dancing in the streets and quoting George Michael. I'm about to get eaten alive! ↗

— A&E Kirk

#faith

It take faith to follow your dreams and courage to reach them. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#dreams #faith #courage

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up ↗

— E.B. White

#faith

Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this "terrorism"), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this "collateral damage"). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct... For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all. ↗

— Sam Harris

#collateral-damage #moral-equivalence #noam-chomsky #faith

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#faith

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#faith #michael-crichton #quote #faith

Laura says - Everybody's faith needs testing from time to time, I thought it would be amusing to introduce you to someone with a Tina Turner album, and see whether you still felt the same. Rob reflects - ...tonight, I have to confess (but only to myself) that maybe, given the right set of peculiar, freakish, probably unrepeatable circumstances, it's not what you like but what you're like that's important. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#faith

Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual. ↗

— J.I.Packer

#salvation #faith