#lief

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight? ↗

— Megan Chance

#faith #instinct #intuition #spiritualism #faith

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #god #grief #trust #faith

If God does not exist, everything is permitted. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#existence #faith #god #faith

Yet even in such moments she didn’t doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did. ↗

— Tamera Alexander

#faith #god #trust #faith

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #faith

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#cosca #faith #faith

We gotta do much more than believe if wanna see the world change We gotta do much more than believe if we really wanna change things We gotta do much more than believe, go on try it, go on try it We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change ↗

— Dave Matthews Band

#from-belief-to-action #change

For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, "Do you believe in God?" His eyes narrow for a moment and he stares at me at me for a while. Stares in a rather intense way, like a doctor looking at a troubling X-ray. Then he looks out the and says in a voice like shattered glass, "Only in storms. ↗

— Rebecca Sparrow

#death #faith #god #grief #death

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#belief #christianity #faith #russia #faith

في بعض الأحيان ، نتخلى عن درب ما ، لأننا ببساطة لا نؤمن بها . وهذا سهل ، فكل ما علينا فعله إثبات أن تلك الطريق ليست لنا . لكن الأحداث التي تبدأ بالحصول ، والإلهام الذي يأتينا خلال مسيرتنا ، يبعثان فينا الخوف من المتابعة ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#faith #novel #faith