"Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand."

-- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

#Faith Quotes #Doe Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.”
“I don't aim for money. Money never has or will be my motivation. I”
“One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."”
“The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.”
“Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.”

Source : "Interview: Owl City's Adam Young and His God-Inspired Music". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. June 25, 2011.
“It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a periodâ€”days or weeksâ€”without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.”

Source : Bette Greene (1988). “Morning is a long time coming”, Starfire
“There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
“Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.”

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