Faith Quotes
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
An autobiography is so difficult to write because we possess no standards, no objective foundation, from which to judge ourselves. There are really no proper bases for comparison. I know that in many things I am not like others, but…
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Tags: Faith, Mystery
Posted in Carl Jung | 4 Comments »
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Of course they don’t go to the bottom of it, or they would see if they never came for a cab it would be no use your standing there; but people don’t always like to go to the bottom of things; it may not be convenient to do it; but if you Sunday drivers…
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Tags: Faith, Independence, Self Respect
Posted in Anna Sewell | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
I get a kick out of the clues in dialogue. This Note Taker guy is a bit on the egotistical side. Who is he to act as if he has a right to decide who should live or die, based on style of speech? And that flower girl – she’s spunky, isn’t she?
Now that we have our bearings from this bit of scripted dialogue, let’s add a layer. After Shaw’s death…
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Tags: Education, Faith
Posted in George Bernard Shaw | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the…
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Tags: Faith, Inaugural Address
Posted in Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they could be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they…
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Tags: Faith, Happiness
Posted in Helen Keller | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 29th, 2010
“God is one for everybody, only people are different. Some Russian, some are Turks, or some are English – there are many kinds of people, but God is one.
“Very good, sir. If all people worship one God, why do you…”
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Tags: Faith, Religion
Posted in Anton Chekhov | 1 Comment »
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life. Moreover, with wisdom we shall learn liberality. The solitary hired man on a farm in the outskirts of Concord, who has had his second birth and peculiar…
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Tags: Faith, Walden, Wisdom
Posted in Henry David Thoreau | 1 Comment »
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
“Then let’s get at those postulates in a hurry. The storm’s due tomorrow.”
Powell sighed wearily. “That’s where everything falls down. Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe…”
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Tags: Faith, Logic
Posted in Isaac Asimov | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The willows which make the frame of the sweat lodge are set up on such a way that they mark the four quarters of the universe; thus, the whole lodge is the universe in an image, and the two-legged, four-legged and winged…
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Tags: Faith, Power, Understanding
Posted in Nicholas Black Elk | No Comments »
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
The film explains that when Kirk was a cadet, he reprogrammed the simulation because “he didn’t believe in the no-win scenario.”
Over the years, some of my sophisticated academic…
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Tags: Believe, Dreams, Faith
Posted in Randy Pausch | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
I tried to make Corrine remember that day, but she couldn’t.
She gets weaker and weaker, and unless she can believe in us an start to feel something for her children, I fear we will…
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Tags: Believe, Faith
Posted in Alice Walker | 1 Comment »
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Pray the prayer that is the essence
of every ritual. God, I have no hope.
I am torn to shreds. You are my first,
my last and only refuge…
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Tags: Faith
Posted in Rumi | No Comments »