Faith Quotes

Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
student questions reality

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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Every man must look after his own soul; you can’t lay it down at another man’s door like a foundling

Sunday, May 30th, 2010
chapel

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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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech

Thursday, April 8th, 2010
frangipani

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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When there is no vision the people perish

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
harvest

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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My happiness is so deep that it is a faith

Monday, February 15th, 2010
sunrise

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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Your God and my God are all the same

Friday, January 29th, 2010
bread

“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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These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men

Saturday, January 16th, 2010
zoroastrian temple

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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You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason – if you pick the proper postulates

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
steampunk robot ring

“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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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Making a sweat lodge

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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I don’t believe in the no-win scenario

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
crawling baby

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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Unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause each other unknowingly.

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
sun almost breaks through clouds

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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Prayer is an egg

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
baby birds

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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