#faith

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.] ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#fortitude #glory #man #strength #faith

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#built #come #country #everywhere #faith

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God. ↗

— John Piper

#god #intellect #mind #objectivity #truth

If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#faith #great #human #misery #too

Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#politics-of-the-united-states #war #faith

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation. ↗

— Horatius Bonar

#faith #faith

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#shattered-dreams #dreams

Have faith in the gifts that you have, the ones that move you to a better place. ↗

— Danielle Barone

#faith

Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakenly created for themselves. [...] It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos. ↗

— Tim Lott

#depression #faith #identity #anger