Faith Orthodoxy Theology Doubt Quotes

#1. It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.

James Joyce

#2. Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic.

R. Alan Woods

#3. I think my parents wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. But I do remember them - when I first moved out to L.A. - sending me applications to grad school for teaching.

Riki Lindhome

#4. Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

Flannery O'Connor

#5. The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#7. Not what I have, but what I have not, is the first point of contact, between my soul and God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.

Robin Marantz Henig