“I was worried about the children. Maybe something happened to one of the kids. I never thought it happened to the parents.”
“It was a total and complete shock. You don't expect that. Not here its really quiet out here.”
“You worry about your safety after that.”
“I have to say it's one of the friendliest symphonies I've ever been around, ... It was a sheer joy for me, being a people person.”
“Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness”
“Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations”
“Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.”
“You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.”
“Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.”
“One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.”
Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.
Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.
“There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.”
Faith doesn't move mountains, but people with faith - and shovels - will move mountains in order to defend their faith.
“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.
“Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.”
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith”