#fait

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith. At the last moments, like all great acts, it is pure risk. This is true for me as a human being and as a writer. Dear Heaven, how hard it is to let go - to step into the blue. And yet one's creative life depends on it and one desires to do nothing else. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#faith #freedom #humility #risk #surrender

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. ↗

— Marie de France

#discretion #divers #end #faith #folk

My faith always has been and always will be important to me. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#been #faith #important #me #will

Base souls have no faith in great individuals. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#faith #great #individuals #souls

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#faithful #heroes #mind #minds #mirrors

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. ↗

— John Donne

#hand #her #left #our #reason

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#belief #exercise #faith #our #reason

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#i #me #medium #particular #people

What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem. ↗

— Os Guinness

#experience