Quotes of: Leap-of-faith Keyword

A leap of faith doesn’t involve leg strength. Still, I can’t take any chances, so I’ve been doing squats.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Actually, the “leap of faith”—to give it the memorable name that Soren Kierkegaard bestowed upon it—is an imposture. As he himself pointed out, it is not a “leap” that can be made once and for all. It is a leap that has to go on and on be...

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

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

There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of divinity is a mighty jump from the rational over to the unknowable, and I don't care how diligently scholars of every religion will try to sit you down w...

Eat, Pray, Love

Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It's simply about taking the leap....and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may soar.

Kristi Bowman

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will ...

Credo

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

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

Not a single bird makes its first leap from a tree without faith, and not a single animal in the jungle begins its day without faith. Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.

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

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

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

The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

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

Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avo...

John C. Lennox

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