#Faith

"You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."

"Fat Bungee Jumpers When I watch a fat woman bungee jumpI swear I can feel the earth leaving its orbit."

"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."

"Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us."

"The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him."

"It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all"

"Talking to Myself I used to talk to myself until myself criticized myself.Now I'm giving myself the silent treatment."

"Poets and their Thin Skins Every poet is thin-skinned when it comes to criticism ~without ithow could he ever possess the astute sensitivity about lifeto even write poetry?"

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"Make It Happen!!! [10w] Don't wait for someone to fall in love with you."

"Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens."

"Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option."

"Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys."

"I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don't have faith unless their faith is small and comprehensible and like a good old plastic Jesus?"

"Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable."

"Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?"

"What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe."

"The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God."

"It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control."

"Area 51 [20w] If aliens were truly looking for intelligent life on earth,what the fuck were they thinking going to New Mexico?"