“Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.” Quote by David Steindl-Rast
“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.” SometimesSeemsHappensFaithCommunityExpectationsWarmFloats Author:Anne Lamott
“It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.” ShouldFaithForceSimpleDivineMaterialsEssentialsWeakDivinityMonstrousSimple Faith Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale
“Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.” FaithResultsOneselfFaith In GodFearlessness Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale
“Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?” IfsKnowsGamesSportsOpponentsHuntingFairnessEquipment Author:Bill Maher
“The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom” WealthBottomFairness Author:Jim Webb
“The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.” PeopleNeedsLittlesEndsLawBitsGoalNaturalVisionRightsFailingDiseaseLittle BitNobleDisasterFairnessDealingsNatural Disaster Author:Scott Turow
“I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)” IfsNeedsYearsEnoughFightingNextSpeakPrayingCatholicAtheistOrthodoxBroadsPermitPlatformsFairnessSuffrageBeadsWomen's Suffrage Author:Susan B. Anthony
“One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.” IfsLightAnswersMiddleExpressionExcellenceWorthyContradictionCollapse Author:Barry Lopez