#trembling

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#confessed #dare #fear #girl #independent

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. ↗

— Robert Musil

#hung #people #perceptible #real #rested

If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but not believed; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God. ↗

— Kierkegaard

#fear-and-trembling #faith

It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form of problemata , in order to see what a tremendous paradox faith is, a paradox which is capable of transforming a murder into a holy act well-pleasing to God, a paradox which gives Isaac back to Abraham, which no thought can master, because faith begins precisely there where thinking leaves off. ↗

— Kierkegaard

#faith #fear-and-trembling #faith

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#appealing #approach #dear #dissolution #endeavouring

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#afraid #already #before #craven #fright

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#anymore #beautiful #leaf #make #never

Love is trembling happiness. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#love #love is #trembling

Faith is the highest passion in a man. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#faith

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#health #trembling #struggle