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And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too,
not only with what we can read more
And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too,
not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do
not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and
rightly--faith in God.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of read more
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man read more
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it read more
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of
his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come
to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was
never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith:
Henceforth there read more
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:
and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his
appearing.
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.