#Faith

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."

"If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today."

"Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess."

"To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?"

"Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you."

"Russian, Metafizicheskiy-poshlost This is the humorous metaphysical banality like watching Tolstoy's wife, Sophia, nag her husband about leaving borscht stains on the table linen. The resulting discombobulation totally messed up the ending of Anna Karenina."

"Over-Douse [10w] Trying to mask death's smell,old ladies over-douse on perfume."

"This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship."

"Stratospherical Poems [10w] Poets circle the earth in a higher orbit than readers."

"Library [10w] Hopefully, the library in the afterlife doesn't contain contemporary poetry."

"Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'"said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives."

"Dysfunctional Love We split up not because he or she didn't love us,but because they did love us in the only way they knew how."

"The Downside of Stuff {Couplet) I got what I want;I have what I need.But they want what I have,and they'll make me bleed."

"Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!"

"No rain can't get the rainbow."

"Mithorden said it well,"she said finally. "It's worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they're really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies -- war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared."She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views."

"Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief."

"Witticisms The greatest reward for coming up with some witty turn of phraseis that some day, if you're lucky,it may wind up in a fortune cookieat the very Chinese restaurant you're eating in!But if you get a big head about it,know it wasn't the flattery,it was the MSG."

"What's Hot [10w] + {Couplet} We incorrectly assume what's hotis becoming what we're not."