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Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil
and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you
across thousands of miles
and all the years you have lived.
- Helen Keller
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Anchoring in soft mud is dangerous.
Anchor thyself to the rocks of Faith, Compassion, and Service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility
in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
- D. Elton Trueblood
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Faith can move mountains.
- Anonymous
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing wrong with America
that faith, love of freedom, intelligence,
and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid
for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world
shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason...
when faith becomes blind it dies.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Can you imagine a life with no fear?
What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
- Max Lucado
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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