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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#honor #lyalty #reality #faith

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#bliss #christ #eternity #faith #ignorance

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#faith #inspirational #experience

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ↗

— Confucius

#loyalty #precious-things #treasures #value #virtues

Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith. ↗

— Margaret Shepard

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Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al. ↗

— E.J. Patten

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...and when is enough proof enough? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, FAITH is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. ↗

— Barbara J. Winter

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Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue in it after failure?" Vin frowned. "Anyone can believe in someone or something that always succeeds, Mistress. But failure . . . ah, now that is hard to believe in certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#failure #faith #hope #faith