#fait

Wait, don't despair, Have faith and hopeful, Who wait and don't despair, The reward awaits. ↗

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

#faith

Faith is the highest passion in a man. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#faith

I've been a Christian since I was a little girl. But my Christianity is a muddy mess of thoughts and opinions and making God into what works for me-like going shopping at the mall and picking out whatever I want, putting together faith like I would an outfit. Somehow I don't think the Creator, the I AM, the savior of the world is something we can mix and match to out liking. ↗

— Cindy Martinusen-Coloma

#faith #god #faith

because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. ↗

— Rob Bell

#faith #inspirational #faith

Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains. ↗

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

#faith

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it. ↗

— Kathleen McGowan

#fiction #faith

Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#god #hope #faith

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

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

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