Lack Of Faith – Quotes

The great paradox is

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles. Gabrielle Bernstein

Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego’s will to prevail. To listen to the soul … Read more

Short of actual blunders,

Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one’s position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it. Fred Reinfeld

The stress that some

The stress that some of us feel – it’s a lack of faith, it really is. Francis Chan

To feed the hungry,

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven. Dorothy … Read more

Is it not lack

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, then the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. ‘Cogito, ergo Deus est,’ argues St. Augustine, ‘I … Read more

Mediocrity is perhaps due

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon. Denise Levertov

Notice how people can

Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears … Read more

The ability to destroy

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force. David Prowse

exemplar, n. It’s always

exemplar, n. It’s always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can … Read more