Libba Bray

"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, it’s a wonder we do it at all ...."

Libba Bray

Jodi Picoult

"The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies ... "

Jodi Picoult (Keeping Faith)

T.S. Eliot

"I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing ... "

T.S. Eliot

Caroll Hermann

Spieel

Wanneer jou drome, soos
n spieel stukkend
val
En fragmente van jou
lewe
soos skerwe voor jou voete
lê.
En Hoop,
Geloof,
(en liefde)
bloed belope terug weerkaats -
stuk vir stuk
n legkaart maak.
Kort n n stuk.
En ek soek,
ek soek.

Caroll Hermann

Faith

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel Teney

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Blaise Pascal

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Edwin Louis Cole

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. Forbes

Joanne Harris

"Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored."

Joanne Harris