The faithless are surprised, that the faithful put no faith in them; the infidels are astounded that the wise do not put trust in them. After all we don't entrust cement to grow abundant foliage.
Trust God when it doesn't make sense. Trust Him when it looks impossible. That is real faith. When we are faithless, God is forever faithful.
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.
It's a queer business, making oneself blind.
Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.
Look your best - who said love is blind?
Vision without Mission is Lame; Mission without Vision is Blind.
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
You may think you're not blind, but can you see in the dark? ☥
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
