“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.” PeopleIfsWorldWellsPlayFaithIssuesGreatnessMeetingsStriveIllDetermineReally GreatGreat PeopleGood Faith Book:The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.” MenHeartPlaySeemsMightChristianFaithBeliefChristianityExampleWelcomeReliefTombsPredestined Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.” HumansWellsImportantPlayEarthSuccessFaithHeavenGoalDivineAngelWingsWideCarrieBroadsHuman Experience Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.” WayTryingLongImportantPlayFaithBeliefConcernLong Way Author:Rick Wakeman
“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.” PeopleWayMindHas BeensPlayEyeFaithBeliefChangeChallengesStrangeBlessingMindsetTricksThings Change Author:Muhammad Yunus
“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.” IfsWritingWellsPlayStoriesFilmFaithStuffVoiceMorningNovelTeachingBedMagazinesComicFaithfulDrySpellsEvery MorningTrapsEssaysJumpingBeansBurstingComic Strips Author:Ray Bradbury
“This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.” WritingLooksPlayRunningFaithSpeakSinWalksLaughingCryPrayingTasteDrawsDareSmellActiveCirclesExperimentsScreamBowsProvokingRepentVerbsHide And SeekEmote Book:Leap Source: Leap
“My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And I do. And my faith is a very, it's very personal. I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family. I pray for my little girls.” WayLittlesPersonsPlayBigsFaithGirlPrayingMy FamilyHarmTroopsI PrayOur Troops Author:George W. Bush
“Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along.” PlayInspirationFaithSongWifeHusbandEternalMadNotesChristian InspirationalFlutes Author:Trevor Hall
“It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.” HumansMayRealSoulEndsPlayInspirationMightEarthLastsLife IsFaithUniverseHeavenStarsObjectsJokesGardenTasksTreatsFinalsSecureInnocenceHuman LifeHolidayHuman SoulPlaygrounds Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton