#fait

... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult. ↗

— Yanis Varoufakis

#economic-models #economics #markets #faith

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#burdens #faith #god #love #relationships

Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs. ↗

— Fr James Groenings

#christ #faith #faith

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#resilience #faith

The peculiarity of the Christian faith is not to teach this doctrine but to render it, in various ways, more tolerable. Christianity teaches us that the terrible task has already in some sense been accomplished for us--that a master's hand is holding ours as we attempt to trace the difficult letters and that our script need only be a 'copy,' not an original. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#doctrine #faith #faith

True faith is never found alone; it is always accompanied by expectation. The man who believes the promises of God expects to see them fulfilled. Where there is no expectation, there is no faith. ↗

— A. W. Tozer

#faith #promises #faith

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#faith #insincerity #pretense #religion #faith

Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!" ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #reason #reasonable #faith

There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith ↗

— Swetha Dhanagari

#faith

I’m just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful love, earth. ↗

— B. Barmanbek

#future #science-fiction-romance #utopia #faith