#fait

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#death #faith #grief #grieving #loss

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#freedom #stuck #faith

if someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need is there-waiting for you to receive it. As long as we are pulled inward-despair and self attention, we aren't free to reach for God's grace. If we mean to leave ourselves alone, we must keep a hand free. ↗

— Eugenia Price

#surrender #faith

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#faith

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#faith

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #come #exists #faith #false

Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real. ↗

— Patrick Carman

#faith

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog! ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dogs #egotism #faithfulness #friends #friendship

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

#faith