Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of
his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come
to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was
never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
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Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; read more
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.
