Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

Richard Whately

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Bram Stoker

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Ambrose Bierce

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

Alice Walker

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Alice Walker

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

Anne Lamott

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

Anne Lamott

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Marilynne Robinson

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Carol Kennedy

It was just so wonderful to go down there and be of some help.