About Faith

1.  "Commit your ways unto the Lord." But what good is a text like that when you are lying awake at midnight, and you have to decide for your whole life, and other people's too, whether it shall be yes or no? — Thomas Mann (1875-1955) from Buddenbrooks
2. "Faith" is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see — / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. — Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
3. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. — Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
4. All too often, people of faith like to enumerate the sins of other traditions while ignoring the stains on their own... But claiming that religion has only been evil is inaccurate. — Karen Armstrong (1944- ) in The Case for God
5. An old mountain man's prayer: "Lord, I don't ask for a faith that would move yonder mountain. I can take enough dynamite and move it, if it needs movin'. I pray, Lord, for enough faith to move me." — Norman Allen
6. Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside. — G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
7. Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. — Max Clarke
8. Faith makes things possible, not easy. — Unknown
9. Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. — Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)
10. Faith: the unknowable promoted to the irrefutable. — Brooke McEldowney (1952- ) in 9 Chickweed Lane Cartoon
11.  Faithfulness is the art of committing adultery only with one's mind. — Décoly

Another Set Of Random Quotes

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” ~Henry David Thoreau


“‘What’ and ‘if’ are two words as non-threatening as words can be, but put them together side by side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life.” ~Letters to Juliet


“You can’t choose what stays and what fades away.” ~Florence + the Machine


“I love how I hear this song in my head when I think of her. I love how she makes me feel, like anything’s possible, or like life is worth it.” ~500 days of summer


“Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person’s name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and “fruitfulness” is drawn in.” ~Mary Ann Shaffer


“Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving.” ~Anna Kamienska


“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.” ~Arundhati Roy


“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” ~Mary Oliver