#it

Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf. ↗

— José Rizal

#faith

Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human. ↗

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

#religious-faith #faith

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. ↗

— Kim Young-ha

#on-fiction #pessimism #reality #pessimism

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#annoyance #irritation #responsibility #self-awareness #self-awareness

We dare not forget the power of prayer. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#faith

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#faith #trust #faith

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression. ↗

— John Derbyshire

#hedonish #selfishness #vanity #pessimism

Faith succeeds where intelligence says: "No way! ↗

— Gavriil Stiharul

#intelligence #faith

Religion is for those individuals trying to avoid going to hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have been there. ↗

— United Methodish Church bulletin

#sprituality #faith

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes. ↗

— Émile Zola

#religious-faith #faith