#fait

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#hope #love #thing #waiting #would

If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same. ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#faith #fiction #hope #inspirational #women-s-fiction

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#mental #mind #process #sort

It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. ↗

— James Joyce

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God; it is a sincere seeking for a good thing; and it is a concentration on the thing sought, with faith that it is obtainable. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#faith #god #praying #faith

Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and lesbian. In America the unholy alliance between the know-nothing fundamentalists and the Catholic hierarchy keeps the faithful whipped up to a frenzy of witch-hunting and fag-bashing. ↗

— Paul Monette

#glbt #hate #homophobia #religion #faith

He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a single flame; there was in him nothing of the prophet or the mystic. He was a simple soul who loved, and that was all. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#faith #faith

...for the purity of first light is bliss and surely the whole point of faith is just in this: - Not that we believe but that we ask of He to have faith in us. ↗

— Gabriel Brunsdon

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...have you been waiting all this time, faithful as always, my Life?... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #faith

Folks, the message of Christ is simple. It's not heady, or high-minded, or supremely intellectual at all. It is simple on purpose. It is simple enough to be understood by every person. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

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