T Quotes
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“The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.”
Source: Saint George and the Dragon
“The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.”
“The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.”
Source: When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
“The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.”
Source: Grimm Tales: For Young and Old
“The fairy tale isn't Prince Charming or magical unicorns. It's love. What I want is to love someone, and for them to love me back. For me, that's the fairy tale.”
Source: Miracle on 5th Avenue
“The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.”
“The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.”
“The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.”
Source: Illuminations
“The fairy tales told to me in my childhood have a deeper meaning than the facts taught in life.”
“The fairy was flying in loops and swirls around her, shedding fairy dust as she went. Throwing it at Wendy.
Delighted, the human girl raised her arms up to fully experience what was happening. Delicate golden sparkles floated down and kissed her skin. Where they touched, Wendy felt lighter. Tiny pains she hadn't even realized she felt entirely disappeared, and any weariness vanished. She felt rested, energetic, and- airy.”
Source: Straight On Till Morning
“The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.”
“The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.”
“The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.”
Source: Name of the Rose
“The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.”
“The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.”
“The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism in the modern world. Now the church must engage with the emergence of a postmodern, post- Christian, neo-pagan world.”
“The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what I feel... When the time comes to leave I must force myself to overcome the inclination to prolong my stay with Jesus.”
“The faith I was born into formed me.”
“The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.”
“The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.”
“The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“The faith induced jihadi fervor that served the Muslims so well in the mortal combats of yore became their very bane in the later day techno-military conflicts with the scientific tempered kafirs.”
“The faith induced military fervor that served the Muslims so well in the mortal combats of yore became their very bane in the later day techno-military conflicts with the scientific tempered kafirs.”
“The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.”
Source: Prayers for the Assassin
“The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.”
“The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.”
Source: On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society
“The faith of a man is his fortune.”
“The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.”
“The faith of our forefathers is through force for pushing us forward.”
“The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.”
“The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.”
“The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven”
“The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.”
Source: The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.
“The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.”
“The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. Since it is by giving alms that everything is pure for you, you will also receive that blessing which is promised next by the Lord: the Godhead that no man has been able to see. In the inexpressible joy of this eternal vision, human nature will possess what eye has not seen or ear heard, what man's heart has never conceived.”
“The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.”
“The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?”
“The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.”
“The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.”
“The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.”
Source: Holiness (Abridged): Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
“The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.”
Source: The Portal of the Mystery of Hope
“The faith that people unthinkingly place in government and its ability to accomplish any number of important goals is at the same time a faith in the people who work in government, so-called public servants. If we contend that only government can accomplish certain things, then we are, by definition, asserting that the people who work in government are somehow more knowledgeable, more capable, more well-intentioned, or more motivated than their counterparts outside of government.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.”
“The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“The faith we Christians proclaim needs to be not a clever system but the possibility of dependable relationship. We need to point to the God who does not let go, to the Christ who does not run away. And (here's the rub) we ourselves need to be dependable people... by our faithfulness to the lost, the suffering, and marginal, we begin to show what it is to have faith in the one who doesn't let go.”
Source: Meeting God in Mark: Reflections for the Season of Lent
“The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.”
“The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.”
Source: Sermons
“The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah, and Bahá’u’lláh, and other supreme Souls: there, also, are the martyrs.”
“The faithful are often mocked for saying that God works in mysterious ways because it sounds like lazy thinking, or a cop-out answer; but it's actually quite conclusive in many cases. One should consider the concept of omniscience: that a Being worthy of being called 'God' would know and utilize 12-D chess while humans are still playing checkers.”