Stubborn Faith Quotes

#1. The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? "What has this god of yours ever really done for you?" She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. "Everything.

Francine Rivers

#2. I was alone, for twenty-five years. And I didn't give a shit, because I didn't know what I was missing.
Then, this stubborn, beautiful fucking brunette came barreling into my life and shoved her way through all the shadows.

Julie Johnson

#3. I walk to Starbucks for a quick caffeine fix when I hear a voice too familiar and annoying to be real. 'Tsk tsk pati ba naman dito sinusundan mo ako? Grabe a, are you stalking me?

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#4. The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned it.

H. Rider Haggard

#5. My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus?

Mary E. DeMuth

#6. It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

Maria Luisa Bombal

#7. When somebody wants to write an article attacking a scoring system or the influence of wine writers, who's right in the cross hairs? It's not Steve Tanzer, it's not Marvin Shanken, it's me. These other people, it's not like they don't have some influence, and I'm more than happy to share it.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#8. There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness.

Ruskin Bond

#9. There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

Cecily Strong

#10. As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Guy Deutscher

#11. For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#12. Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. She didn't fool herself about either her lack of faith or her stubborn love of the idea itself. 'Come

Stephen King

#14. I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. Lack of Faith"

Yes,
even when I don't believe -
there is a place in me
inaccessible to unbelief,
a patch of wild grace,
a stubborn preserve,
impenetrable,
pain untouched by the sleeping body,
music that builds its nest in silence.

Anna Kamienska

#16. It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

Cynthia Ozick

#17. Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on like this for a while, perhaps until my last breath.

Rachel Held Evans

#18. Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

Starhawk

#19. Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.

Louis Pasteur

#20. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Ramsay MacMullen

#21. It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson