
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
- Topic: Faith, Thinking
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Faith in yourself matters.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
