"But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown."

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Source : Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers

Carter Heyward

#Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Risk Quotes

“I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.”
“If the windows of your spirit are dirty, and streaked, covered with matter foreign to them, then the world as you look out of them will be dirty and streaked and out of order. Â… Go wash your windows.”
“No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks”
“If I lend my support to a specific cause, it has to be something that I look over and that I have a complete understanding of and it's not just some extracurricular bullshit.”
“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”
“What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die. When you don't have so much control over your own thoughts, over the myriad voices in your head, you don't know where they could go.”
“...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.”
“I think Trump's presidency represents a completely different model than what we're used to. And I think to your point, yes, he is a great communicator, you know? He uses Twitter to great effect. I just wish he could stick more to the truth, because it's a very effective way of communicating directly with the American people.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

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