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In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into read more
When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly
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.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it read more
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."
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man read more
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any read more
If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, read more
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too,
not only with what we can read more
And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too,
not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do
not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and
rightly--faith in God.