Ralph Waldo Emerson on faith
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.”
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Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan WattsAlan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
John LewisJohn Lewis Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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