Quotes of: Blind-faith Keyword

Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's provably true, then the existence of God is proven and there's no room for faith.

Snow Crash

The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams.

Sarah Canary

There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

...pray for the grace to realize that no matter where you are, you are in the presence of the Lord.

Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive.

The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

The Shack

The life of faith is a struggle enough in a broken world without us complicating it for other believers.

So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey

Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people — but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose.

And the Mountains Echoed

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

The Making of the Messiah

It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.

Markings

I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without judgement and without pity.

Nor Iron Bars a Cage

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

The Notebook

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

One for the Road: An Outback Adventure