All Quotes By Tag: Faith
“It takes heart to battle great challenges, great faith to be victorious over them.”
“I’d always thought it was gaudy, but standing there watching him beside the gold and glass shrine, I realised that his was a candlelight faith. It didn’t work in the clear unforgiving light in London or Scandinavia, where even the dust in the cathedrals showed. But in the warm dimness and the shadows, what would have been tasteless at home made sense. The shrine looked like an oil painting made into real substance. So did he. England’s was a reading religion, one it was difficult to understand at the bleak unimpressive first glance, one that needed books to explain itself. But his was images and images, the same as the old stages, in a place where not everyone could read and good light was expensive.”
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“In the same way you can find God in the beauty of nature, you can find God in the beauty of the destitute. We’re not meant to just admire the trees, we’re meant to share life.”
“The world you are in –Is the true hell.The journey to Truth itselfIs what quickens the heart to become lighter.The lighter the heart, the purer it is.The purer the heart, the closer to light it becomes.And the heavier the heart,The more chained to this hellIt will remain.”
“Godliness is a devotion to God.”
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“Sometimes it takes heartache to put you on the path toward making your heart full.”
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“The beauty of having faith, is that no matter what the time of day, whether it be day or night I know that someone is always there with me to give me comfort.It doesn’t matter whether it is Buddha, God or Allah because whoever it is, is special to each of us. And that is the beauty of having faith.”
“The only wisdom is to fear God.”
“No men can save himself, that’s why Jesus was nailed on the cross.”
“God is not worried about what you have but about who has you.”
“The death of a man is his sins.”
“We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat of meaninglessness away. We believe because we crave to be seen, to be known, to be understood. We believe because that is the only thing we can do. If there is no one to judge us – to tell us that we are good, and that if we are bad, we can be redeemed – why bother living at all? Why bother being good at all? If there is no one to look after us, and we are truly alone in this universe, what purpose do we have? We have nothing but the present moment, and only temporariness.”
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“The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.”
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