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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.
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Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here.
Hold on to life, even when it is easier letting go.
Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you.
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Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!”
“No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must be the ultimate believer in yourself!”
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Such two speeches cannot wait : I LOVE YOU and I AM SORRY. Elsewise, you may live with regrets to the end.
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No matter how far he can go in his entire life. No matter how much he can achieve in his entire life. No matter how much burdens he can take in his entire life. FAMILY - - - IS HIS LAST REFUGE.
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Need to be smart by existing. Need to be wise by living.
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Love means : You are not finding a suitable person. You be the suitable person made of love.
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Life should be as colourful as the rainbow. Please remember, you are your own painter always.......
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Life is faded away in the everlasting awaited.
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Just for a persistence of faith, many people deplete their entire lives in the everlasting awaited.
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Fortune is where the love is.
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Character determines destiny.
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A divinely brilliant life has no regret when DEATH comes along. And you say," Yes, I'm well prepared ! "
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To enjoy the good health. To bring the truth happiness. To care of his own family. To give the peace to all. Firstly, one must discipline and control his own mind. If he can do so, the enlightenment, wisdom and virtue will go to him naturally.
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Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are the Buddha.
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Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight the odds, as an existential statement. We bellow our savage war cry in the face of the Roman Legions. We swim against the tidal wave. We attack Goliath with a slingshot, and throw stones at a Sherman tank, and ravage ICBMs with our ball peen hammer. We actively reject the reality of our helplessness; and as we assert defiance, we fan the embers of humanity wherever they live within ourselves and our brothers and sisters.
There are many meanings of belief, faith, and religion that do not fall prey to the hypothetical assumptions and verbal piracy of conservative religionists. Professor of Chinese religions Chun-Fang Yu states that in the Chinese religions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, "there is no God transcendent and separate from the world and there is no heaven outside of the universe to which human beings would want to go for refuge." As professor Hsiao-Lan Hu notes, the Chinese languages do not even have a word that parallels the English word religion. What Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism do have, however , is a profound experience of the sacred and an ethical payload that experience spawns. They are not examples of 'unbelief'; they are classics in the art of cherishing life and examples of belief in life's stunning possibilities.
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Free Inquiry
Page 40
Atheists for Jesus?
Volume: 32, #2
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Contribution #6457
Forget deities and an afterlife and the fundamentalist pursuit of oracular magical knowledge, knowledge that can with no evidence refute Darwin and trump the rest of science. Forget all that for a moment and think ethics, which Schopenhauer called the supreme challenge to the human mind. Ethics involves belief and, yes, faith in human perception of the good; it involves mystically deep cognitive encounters with human and terrestrial good. Ethics is born where poetry is born, and secular humanists don't want to leave that behind.
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Free Inquiry
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Atheists for Jesus?
Volume: 32, no. 2
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Contribution #6456
A believer is actually not a true follower of his faith though he claims so. He follows many religions through the windows of culture, norms, and conventions howsoever they may be narrow.
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You will hardly find one, among the profounder sort of scientific minds, without a peculiar religious feeling of his own. His/her religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings, is an utterly insignificant reflection.
Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith.
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With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
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Truthout
Mark Karlin
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Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope"
http://www.truth-out.org/node/10659
Viewed on December 26, 2011
Contribution #6382
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
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Truthout
Mark Karlin
"
Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope"
http://www.truth-out.org/node/10659
Viewed on December 26, 2011
Contribution #6381
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.From there, something shifts for me. I can see that we're all actually co-creating our future moment to moment - which feels like endless possibility.
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Religion has taught us unnecessarily to love some less and hate others more: we love our fellow believers unnecessarily and hate others equally unnecessarily.
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Religion is a typical type of cogwheel where followers assemble together for two purposes: to run their own tempo and stop others’.
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Religion is the biggest discovery of man on earth. But religion is his most failed concept as it has divided people more than it has united them by creating a boundary where followers stop at and throw stones at others.
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There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will
Those who commit sin do not think sin sin. So there is no sin at all because all commit sin at least once in their lifetime.
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Believers have a strong faith in the fact that there is no God; otherwise they would not have indulged themselves in any sin.
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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Gospel of Ramakrishna
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Contribution #6327
G = Gift R = Received A = At C = Christs E = Expense This was the explanation given to me on the first day of my RCIA class. It has now been 20 years and this is the main thing I remember from that experience. Grace is Love.
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Contribution #6312
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Storm
Tim Minchin
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Storm"
http://www.stormmovie.net/
Viewed on December 12, 2011
Contribution #6310
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(7:47 PM 1/22/2011)
Contribution #6263
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(6:27 PM 1/18/2011)
Contribution #6260
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are just details.
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" Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
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Contribution #6240
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak. ( François Fénelon )
“The secret to your freedom is found in what you tell yourself!”
Keeping listening the deepest echo of the soul, as I know that it is the purest source of truth that I'm sure of.
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“He who does not believe in miracles makes certain he will never take part in one.”
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“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?”
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“If the Greeks taught us how to reason and Christianity what to believe, it is Zen that teaches us to go beyond logic and not to tarry even when we come up against ‘the things which are not seen’. For the Zen point of view is to find an absolute point where no dualism in whatever form resides. Logic starts from the division of subject and object, and belief distinguishes between what is seen and what is not seen. The Western mode of thinking can never do away with this eternal dilemma, this or that, reason or faith, man and God, etc. With Zen all these are swept aside as something veiling our insight into the nature of life and reality. Zen leads us into a realm of Emptiness or Void where no conceptualism prevails.”
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“Religion, in so far as it is a source of consolation, is a hinderance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers are wrong.”
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“The higher dimension of religion has also always been practiced by a relatively few uncommon individuals. Indeed, it was largely the response to the more conventional or superficial aspects of such extraordinary personalities that produced the great cultic movements of exoteric religion among the masses. But such cultic movements are created by and designed for the instruction and social improvement of ordinary people, not men and women of the more highly evolved or awakened type. Therefore, alongside the development of exoteric religions there have always been secret societies and esoteric groups founded on practice of higher personal, moral, and biologically evolutionary disciplines.”
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“Faith is a state of openness or trust…In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
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“The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.”
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Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.
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Contribution #4836
We humans have been gifted with powers seldom contemplated. One such should become apparent when we consider that all things that exist must first have existed in the mind of God. Then, spend some time each day observing the beauties of nature and you will be......... reading God's mind! Powerful, indeed.
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My mind thinks of many such thoughts to ponder...
Contribution #4821
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
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The Impact of Science on Society
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Contribution #4793
To be without dreams is to be without hope; to be without hope is to be without purpose.
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Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Leadership is seeing the oak tree in the acorn.
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Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty or cured a disease. Fear never ruled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidity did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors
Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair.
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Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation
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Contribution #4660
People will try and convince you that there is no God and that there is no life after death, ignore the fools. No one has seen what lies on the other side of the grave and those who have are not alive to tell.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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It is contain in the scripture that, " if you have faith as little as a monster seed, when you say to this mountain move and be casted it shall obey thee" but i love one part of the bible that added more light to this, that "faith without work is powerless(useless)" permit me to add in my opinion therefore that; "faith without work, though it might be as big as a mountain cannot move a small circumstances or command or a minuet success as little as a monster seed. learn to make active your faith, by puting more action to it than word.
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action, the compelling force to success
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Contribution #4585
Know you what it is to be a child?...
It is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy tale godmother in its own soul.
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Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.
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Even if one is not hungry and although eat is called HumanBeing Even though one is hungry and although does not eat is HumanBeing
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Discourse on Veda Mantras
Contribution #4510
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.
Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.
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Birds make great sky circles of their freedom. How do they do that? They fall. And falling, they are given wings"
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Contribution #4279
"...religion must be the cause of unity, harmony and agreement among mankind. If it be the cause of discourd and hostility, if it leads to separation and creates conflict, the absence of religion would be preferable in the world...
"The best way I know to prepare for our future is through our fervent faithfilled prayers today"
The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.
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Wordsmith
Ed Krebs, photographer (b. 1951)
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A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on August 13, 2010
Contribution #4264
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Contribution #4260
And all shall be well,
And all shall be well,
All manner of things shall be well.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequitly explained by stupidity
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I contend that we are both Athiests. I just believe in one fewer god than you do.When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full 0f overcoming it.
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Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease
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To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania.
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Joseph Prescott, aphorist (1913-2001)
Contribution #4101
In the deph of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
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Wordsmith
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on May 26, 2010
Contribution #4059
One ounce of patience is greater than a ton of pure gold; because patience is divine+
In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
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The True Believer
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Contribution #3953
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
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The True Believer
Page 22
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Contribution #3949
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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Wordsmith
Stephen Roberts, database architect (b. 1967)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on April 30, 2010
Contribution #3946
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilber K Chesterton
Contribution #3871
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill quote
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Contribution #3860
Let us choose to expand our minds and embrace the grace of life.
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Integrated Gospel Perceptions
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Contribution #3839
“My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'” Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
Contribution #3814
Action is the anidote to despair.
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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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Holy Bible
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Contribution #3796
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Contribution #3772
Reason and faith are banks of the same river.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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We all have the power to give love. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in.
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Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
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There is no substitute for hard work. God rewards your faithfulness. Whatever you do, do it well.
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Told to Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney
Contribution #3655
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Contribution #3645
An optimist isn't necessarily a blithe, sappy whistler in the dark. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us energy to act and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
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The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.
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The Way of Perfection
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Contribution #3460
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.
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Plan B
Page "The Impossible Will Take a Little While"
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Contribution #3452
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
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Contribution #3451
We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made."
It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.
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From the discourses of Rev. Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Contribution #3388
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
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Discourses by Rev. pandurang Shastri Athavale
Contribution #3374
Hope is a stance, not an assessment.
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What is hope? It is the pre-sentiment that imagination is more real and reality is less real than it looks. It is the hunch that the overwhelming brutality of facts that oppress and repress us is not the last word. It is the suspicion that reality is more complex than the realists want us to believe. That the frontiers of the possible are not determined by the limits of the actual. . . . So let us plant dates even though we who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. That is the secret discipline. It is the refusal to let our creative act be dissolved away by our need for immediate sense experience and it is a struggled commitment to the future of our grandchildren.
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
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The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. And they will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks and months to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
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Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
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Let us use science to discover truth. That done, let us use science and the humanities to guide our use of newly discovered truths. But let us recognize that the road to truth is forked, dimly lit, strewn with obstacles. We need, therefore, to recognize and to applaud the role of faith and the spiritual as founts of strength and of perseverance.
Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. . . A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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speech, 2004 DNC Convention
Contribution #2542
Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today--with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be.
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speech, Jan. 3, 2008
Contribution #2532
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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We live comfortably in the patches of reality where theory is tolerably successful, where reason is functional and predictability predominates. But any day an unexpected event may expel us from this Eden into the larger world of the incomprehensible.
It is then that our attitude will sustain or sink us. If we can revel in the mystery, keeping faith in our sights, then we will thrive and grow stronger.
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Josh Mitteldorf
"
Daily Inspiration 5 October 2008"
http://daily-inspiration.org/
Viewed on November 3, 2008
Contribution #2510
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
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"Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God."
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The Book of Mormon
Book of Ether
Chapter 12 verse 4
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Contribution #2413
We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living--Hope for the dead.
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.
I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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Help us to be always the hopeful gardeners of the spirit
who know that without darkness
nothing comes to birth
as without light nothing flowers.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,--real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.
Pray as if everything depended upon God; work as if everything depended upon you.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
My call for a spiritual revolution is thus not a call for a religious
revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow
other-worldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather, it is a
call for a radical re-orientation away from our habitual preoccupation with
self towards concern for the wider community of beings with whom we are
connected, and for conduct which recognizes others interests alongside our
own.
Come, Whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving, Come. Ours is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times, Still come. And yet again, come!
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?
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Faith is taking the first step even when you
don't see the whole staircase.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the
reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Learn from yesterday, live for
today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose the courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!
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Hollywood Blvd. "Star" Ceremony; September 4, 1985
Contribution #624
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Contribution #408
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
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Friedrich Schlegel
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Contribution #406
A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
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Bob Harrington
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Contribution #405
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
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Oliver Windell Holmes
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Contribution #403
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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Oliver Windell Holmes
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Contribution #402
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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Contribution #401
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Samuel Butler
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Contribution #400
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Contribution #399
Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.
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George Perera
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Contribution #398
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
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Rufus M. Jones
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Contribution #397
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Hope is the parent of faith.
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C.A. Bartol
Contribution #394
Faith lives in honest doubt.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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William Ellery Channing
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Contribution #391
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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Miguel De Unamuno
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Contribution #389
To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
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E. M. Cioran
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Contribution #387
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
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James Joyce
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Contribution #385
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Contribution #383
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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Pearl S. Buck
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Contribution #382
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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Johann Kaspar Lataver
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Contribution #381
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutions to cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Erich Fromm
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Contribution #378
Faith is not without worry or care; faith is fear that has said a prayer.
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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Vita Sackville-West
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Contribution #47
Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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Contribution #42
Choose to be optimistic; it feels better.
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What does faith look like in a person?
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