#life

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #faith #life #patience #religion

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#compassion #emotions #faith #feelings #holy-spirit

عندما يمنحك الله الحياة ، من واجبك (ومن حقك ككائن بشري) أن تجد شيئًا جميلًا فيها ، مهما كان ضئيلًا ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#god #life #novel #faith

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#life

It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#work #faith

Sometime you have to stop worrying, wondering, and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not how you planned, but just how it's meant to be. ↗

— Drake

#life #faith

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience. ↗

— Krista Tippett

#opinion #religion #experience

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dialogue #faith #god #ideas #life-of-pi

Marcie looked at the ugly thing and took a minute to rearrange her mental picture of the family gathered around the wood-burning stove, replacing the quaint, charming piece in her imagination with this big, brown metal beast, which would heat their home but not burn little fingers. It would be like a large, beloved dog of some hideous mixed breed, that fit right into their family and served its purpose so well that no one noticed or cared what it looked like. ↗

— Karen Jones Gowen

#family