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In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big – ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it. The West finds itself faced with a full-blooded metaphysical onslaught at just the historical point that it has, so to speak, philosophically disarmed. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith. ↗


— Terry Eagleton


#belief #capitalism #faith #grand-narratives #islam

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important. ↗


— Honor Raconteur


#faith #freedom #gods-will #honor #man

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. ↗


— Mary Baker Eddy


#faith #illusions #infancy #life #sleep

Praying because you're afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and still feel scared, it's whether you're not praying right or not praying at all. ↗


— Sandra Chami Kassis


#fear #inspirational #life #prayer #prayers

Remaining stable and not accepting all the ideas, is my religion. ↗


— Ali Shariati


#god #life #love #religion #faith

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. ↗


— John Piper


#growth #life #word #faith

And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions. ↗


— Diana Gabaldon


#life

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith. ↗


— Margaret Sanger


#philosophical #faith

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out. ↗


— Vladimir Nabokov


#common-sense #faith

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68) ↗


— Karen Armstrong


#family #humanity #life #living #family






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