#toe

Peter Marshall, the great evangelical preacher, once said that we need "faith like potatoes" - plain, simple, real faith that will sustain us in our everyday lives. Whenever I pick up a potato I remember those words. That's the kind of faith I want. When we have faith and act on it, God will come through for us, no matter what our circumstances. God is King! ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

I shut my eyes tight in the darkness. "I believe in Jesus Christ," I said. "With God all things are possible. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

William Carey, the great Baptist missionary, said, "Attempt great things for God and expect great things from God. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence. ↗

— Lev Shestov

#faith

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#food #potatoes #food

I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see. ↗

— Bill Callahan

#food

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#the-brothers-karamazov #life

I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't... ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#karamazov-bothers #life