#Faith

"Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…"

"Pond(er) This [10w] Nobody wants to be:'Big fish in a little pond."

"To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth."

"Epiphanies [10w] Epiphanies aren't intuitions of new ideas;they're rearranging existing information."

"A Frog in my Throat I had me frog in my throat.I swallowed hard and it croaked.Tasted like shit.Next time I get me a frog in my throat,my snooty French boyfriend better wash his dick with soap."

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

"A Good Krill When there's a ocean to sieve through,there's no good or bad krill.There's only your mouth and hunger ~like Vladimir Putin."

"Soulmate My Ass [10w] Aspire to marry the person the least wrong for you."

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."

"To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while."

"I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid."

"The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it."

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."

"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him."

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech."

"Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right."