Nothing before, nothing behind;
the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath.
John Greenleaf Whittier
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
Socrates
All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
Freidrich Nietszche
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
Ojibwa Saying
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
Carl Sandburg
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading.
Oswald Chambers
To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins
What if we truly believed there is a God—a beneficent order to things, a force that’s holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow, and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?
Marianne Williamson
You will have courage because you will have hope.
You will take your time, and rest in safety.
Job 11:18
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Goethe
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Hellen Keller
It is cynicism and fear that freezes life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Live in the present.
Do the things that need to be done.
Do all the good you can each day.
The future will unfold.
Peace Pilgrim
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Marianne Williamson
Follow your gut feeling. Have confidence. We made it up as we went along.
George Harrison
Follow your instincts.
That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
. . . I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
Louise Haskins
It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
Albert Einstein
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear all three—all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour
When you come to the end of everything you know
And are faced with the darkness of the unknown,
Faith is knowing one of two things will happen.
Either there will be something solid for you to stand on,
Or you will be taught how to fly.
Barbara J. Winter
There is no problem in any situation that faith will not solve.
A Course in Miracles
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
When your dreams tire, they go underground, and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston
We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength . . . waiting for the endless good which God is always giving as fast as He can get us to take it in.
George MacDonald
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Cousteau
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.
Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
My obligation is to do the right thing.
The rest is in God's hands.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
break all the glasses and fall toward the glassblower
Rumi
