Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a... RICHARD DAWKINS May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... W. H. AUDEN I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's ju... WARIS DIRIE I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe tha... GREG GRAFFIN There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate tha... ALEXIS KNAPP There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. Bu... ADAM DRIVER I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinary contentedly fallen and godless condition, abs... C.S. LEWIS It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is... D. H. LAWRENCE And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins C.S. LEWIS I believe that every person's individual testimony of Jesus as the Christ comes as a spiritual g... JAMES E. FAUST Most Christians seem to have two kinds of lives, their so-called real life and their so-called relig... WALTER HOOPER I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God'... ELIE WIESEL Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, b... GUSTAVE MOREAU I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work... TAMMY BLANCHARD Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. I... BOBBY BOWDEN I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there&... ALEX HONNOLD I have more love in me than not, I have more hope in me than not, and I have more faith than I used ... BRETT BUTLER Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallibl... RAY COMFORT Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possi... ROBERT SMITH Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. MAHATMA GANDHI [C. S. Lewis] was leery of too many prayers that leave all the work to God and other people. KATHRYN LINDSKOOG People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby... EMILY PROCTER There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.'... MARGOT ROBBIE We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under Go... VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have... OLIVIER MESSIAEN Hours later there came a change. It began to grow light in the bus. The greyness outside the wi... C.S. LEWIS It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't w... STEVE JOBS I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing... JOEL OSTEEN Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to thei... W. BRUCE CAMERON I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live the... NATURI NAUGHTON We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want somethin... C.S. LEWIS Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, ... C.S. LEWIS A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half a... C.S. LEWIS It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. PAT CONROY What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our sa... KEVIN DEYOUNG Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It&... SHARON SALZBERG Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my s... AYUMI HAMASAKI There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. WILLIAM JAMES I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&... TONI COLLETTE I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'M... DERF Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons... BRUCE DAVISON There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unr... HERMANN HESSE There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, s... ZIYI ZHANG When I wake up in the morning, I like to refresh myself and put some tonic on - one with vitamin C -... MELANIA TRUMP Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome thing... ADAM PALLY Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's pa... JOHN TESH One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, in... VINCENT MCNABB I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in t... JEFFREY EUGENIDES There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even ... VIKTOR E. FRANKL The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about... CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essent... JOANNA GARCIA I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in ... BELLE BOYD If you chase the market, it's not going to come to you. You have to have faith in yourself. I th... DAVID MORRELL Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a ... BEN DANIELS So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of wh... AL YANKOVIC Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or bette... JAY CHIAT My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle eas... C.S. LEWIS Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I ha... JOSS WHEDON Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ... C. JOYBELL C. Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. All... CHARLES SPURGEON You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is ther... DAVID ROCKWELL Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I fe... FIONA APPLE It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balan... WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one. ALAIN CHARTIER I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m... FRANK MCCOURT It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curv... NEIL ARMSTRONG Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal. CRAIG GROESCHEL To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. BUDDHA Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have... VICTORIA OSTEEN That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the ... MARTINA HINGIS That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's alwa... MARC ALMOND Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve... PHILLIPS BROOKS I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's ... SARAH JONES What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than... DINESH D'SOUZA So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it... MICHAEL STIPE I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrin... JOEL OSTEEN Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is abroad today a widespread suspicio... JAMES I. PACKER Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when tha... MARIA SHARAPOVA To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a publi... DONNA FREITAS I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no ... A. J. COOK When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One... SHELDON WHITEHOUSE There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperi... LUCY POWELL The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they ... CRISS JAMI I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I&... TIM BURTON Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the ... ROBERT E. HOWARD With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of fa... BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith MAHATMA GANDHI
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LEWIS Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 The [Christian] "doctrines" are translation... C. S. LEWIS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and o... C. S. LEWIS Feast of the Conversion of Paul If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest h... C. S. LEWIS Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 To excuse what can really produce good excuses is... C. S. LEWIS Easter Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any l... C. S. LEWIS Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. LEWIS Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressiv... C. S. LEWIS I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C. S. LEWIS What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other me... C. S. LEWIS Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outsi... C. S. LEWIS You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-... S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a... S. C. GWYNNE Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. C. S. FORESTER They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service an... C. S. FORESTER The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with... C. S. FORESTER Novel writing wrecks homes. C. S. FORESTER There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. C. S. FORESTER Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. C. S. FORESTER I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together l... C. S. FORESTER I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes ... C. S. FORESTER Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Ho... C. S. FORESTER A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford... C. S. FORESTER I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea. C. S. FORESTER The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accor... C. S. FORESTER When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Mus... C. S. FORESTER With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her... C. S. FORESTER There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines. C. S. FORESTER A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can alway... C. S. FORESTER Some men demand rough treatment everywhere! S. C. HALL There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears. C. S. ROBINSON What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my d... S. C. GWYNNE The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and... C. S. FORESTER There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears. C S ROBINSON True love makes the imperfect to perfect .... otherwise love is not true..... BASIL C S We can fight with our destiny ...but one day you should be ready to admit it , surrender to it ........ BASIL C S The Destiny of a good man is to live for self actualization BASIL C S If Love is not powerful , what else is .......!!! BASIL C S Get out, you blazing ass! / Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me! C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. C. S. CALVERLEY The boy, a bare-legged beggarly son of a gun. C. S. CALVERLEY I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, / Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours. C. S. CALVERLEY Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals. C. S. CALVERLEY Meaning, however, is no great matter. C. S. CALVERLEY