Quotes on “faith”

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.