Quotes About Faith

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

After years of being wrong, I now realize the possibility of the Christian belief or Genesis actually being true. Perhaps there was a worldwide flood.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves."—Robert Ingersoll

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

They want to touch God.

A man who submits himself wholeheartedly to God might handle them and not be harmed. That was the faith my father had professed. Certainly he trusted God, in his own case, and believed God manifested Himself in the rolled eyes of his congregants and in their babble of incomprehensible tongues. Trust and be saved, was his philosophy. And yet in the end it was the snakes that killed him. I wondered which element of the calculation had ultimately failed him—human faith or divine patience.

Superstition...is what we call the miracles we don't approve of.

Grant us the courage to accept the bounty You have placed before us this and every other day. Amen.

Conviction Bias I believe in this idea so strongly. It must be true.

La gente está cada vez más aislada, y ansía experiencias colectivas. Permite que tu ferviente y contagiosa fe, en prácticamente todo, le dé algo en qué creer.

To make a discovery, to invent something that connects with the public, to fashion a work of art that is meaningful, inevitably requires time and effort. This often entails years of experimentation, various setbacks and failures, and the need to maintain a high level of focus. You must have patience and faith that what you are doing will yield something important.

Quien pregunta a un adivino cuál será su futuro, sin querer ignora una intuición interior de las cosas por venir, que es mil veces más exacta que cualquier cosa que el adivino pueda decirle. WALTER BENJAMIN, 1892-1940

Spiritualize your warfare.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. [ West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624 (1943)]

Quod volimus credimus libenter we always believe what we want to believe

Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati.

In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity - Push. Click. Slide. Press -

what he wanted most, was godly men, men of faith and discipline, who were prepared if needs be to die: 'For the man who is willing to die will always be your master.