“..and I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org
“I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org
“Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.”— Pierre Trudeau, en.wikiquote.org
“With this painting, I tried to make everything breathe faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style and great nature with its scream.”— Paul Gaugin, en.wikiquote.org
“People think there's a solution... If everything is distributed in the proper quarters, put into the right pigeonholes, everything will be fine. But I'm not so sure. … Nothing, absolutely nothing at all has emerged out of all these ideas of faith and scepticism, all these convulsions, these puffings…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect…”— Marc Hack, goodreads.com
“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.”— David Byrne, amazon.com
“Alone at last, we can sin and fight. And I’ve lost all faith in this blurring light. But stay right here, we can change our plight; storming through this, despite what’s right.”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith”— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com
“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, en.wikiquote.org
“God is in your bones. That's why we are here. To realize the God that lives in our bones, as us.”— Jeff Brown, facebook.com