#fait

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ↗

— William James

#beforehand #come #enough #faith #hour

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) ↗

— Jean Calvin

#calvin #faith #humility #ignorance #knowledge

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#art #back #contact #ensemble #experience

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ↗

— Helen Keller

#emerge #into #light #shall #shattered

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#making #most #performance #promise #slow

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#life #must #need #remains #some

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #authors #book #changes #faithful

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. ↗

— Richard Russo

#does #faith #find #happens #how

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#belief #enormous #faith #god #i