Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land.
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Related Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain ADOLF HITLER Any negotiation on the basis of land for peace is a fatal mistake. AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty... ALDO LEOPOLD We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty... ALDO LEOPOLD There will always be people who will accept you for what you are! SAKURA TSUKUBA Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will de... ABHIJIT NASKAR The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and... BIBLE The thing that we must look out for if a land is condemned or not is when the leaders of the land pa... SUNDAY ADELAJA The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr... JOSEPH CONRAD Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more. J.M. BARRIE Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--
It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. THOMAS CAMPBELL America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th... GEORG W. HEGEL America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th... GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th... GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Feast of Matthias the Apostle Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall neve... JOHN HENRY NEWMAN And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t... THORNTON WILDER Religion is like a bottle of gin uncorked, it's harmless. But like gin, a heaping helping of the dog... BOBBY W. MILLER Should we call her?Maybe we should give her a RING to see where she is? Get it? Get it? -... CHRIS COLFER For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit ... BIBLE Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes ... CHRIS COLFER But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn'... CHRIS COLFER America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of t... G. W. F. HEGEL We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words) JOHN NEWTON Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, / Before I go w... BIBLE And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? / Th... BIBLE We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our... LOBSANG TENZIN Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretche... EMMA LAZARUS I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea... ALAN BENNETT The thing that we must look out for if a land is condemned or not is when the leaders of the land pa... SUNDAY ADELAJA We have no land under control. There is no option on any of the property. JAMES MCDONALD We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on th... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised l... MWAI KIBAKI Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts ... BIBLE They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by th... BIBLE We are going on faith that we will have the land, and our building, within the next few months - eve... BOB MILLER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We are in the process of building a church. Hopefully this way we can start out doing good works on ... MELISSA ALLEN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to pres... JONATHAN SWIFT When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in ... DAVID EDDINGS We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land. D.B. NIELSEN Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not? SAKURA TSUKUBA I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, th... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity sha... BIBLE I shall always remember you-slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion-pumping hot wat... GEORGE F. KENNAN Belief will say,sometime in the future,this dream shall manifest,but faith says today is the day. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish. NICK LAMPSON And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss
for the fly that is in the uttermos... BIBLE We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall
fight in the fields, ... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on th... WINSTON CHURCHILL ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen... RAYMOND E. FEIST ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a... JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback) "I know t... AMAZON REVIEWER Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but... ABHIJIT NASKAR With faith in God, we shall overcome any situation. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight ... WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight ... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the ... BOB TAFT In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And the voice of men shall call,
"He is fallen like us all,
Though the weapon of the Lord was ... ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, / How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? / Wider... ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Where faith is in the plighted hand, where truth lives in each eye of blue, and every heart is staun... ERNST MORITZ ARNDT Again to the battle, Achaians!
Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
Our land, the first garden... THOMAS CAMPBELL Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. PERICLES And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We h... QURAN Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and re... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish RUPERT BROOKE Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here... EMMA LAZARUS We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire... CORDWAINER SMITH I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we ge... GEORGE ELIOT It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blosso... THEODOR HERZL There's some worry about the amount of water in the area, about whether we're robbing the wildlife r... BILL WILSHER We're in the process of getting on [the Cranberry planning commission] agenda. We're about a month a... CHUCK GOETZ And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, / And thou Be... BIBLE Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL The wise do not teach how to extricate weeds of stress from a land of life, but show the land on whi... DR HITESH C SHETH The eyes of a nation (living godly) like this shall see the King of kings and the Lord of lords in a... SUNDAY ADELAJA It's too early to pinpoint the specific locations and amount of rain, but we definitely see an incre... BOB BURKE But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving? "Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro... TRACY WARD It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more a... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the bread... BIBLE Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppressi... NELSON MANDELA when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our li... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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