#faith

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#faith #grounded #left #progressive #social

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#always #faith #first #god #had

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#believers #both #dark #different #different religions

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come. ↗

— Walter Lang

#come #faith #god #image #original

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#background #christianity #christians #emerged #faith

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#clothes #faithful #famous #given #i

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#basis #born #declare #ever #faith

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#am #ask #boldly #boldness #faith

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. ↗

— William Law

#attracts #christ #desire #divine #divine nature