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"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy
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"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
— Søren Kierkegaard

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"Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. "
— Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace)

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"Ansel Adams: Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter"
— Ansel Adams

tags: inspirational
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"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."
— Paul Tillich

tags: doubt, faith, inspiration, religion
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"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
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"If we would give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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"Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon."
— Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality)

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"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image."
— Thomas Merton

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"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, happiness, religion
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get from it, but what they become by it"
— John Ruskin

tags: reflective
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"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
— Anne Lamott

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"We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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"God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, inspirational
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"The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."
— John Ruskin

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"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
— Saint Thomas Aquinas

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"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
— Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."
— Anne Lamott

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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion
473 people liked it

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity
217 people liked it

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: happiness, inspirational, life
336 people liked it

"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world."
— Karl Barth

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"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”"
— Augustine of Hippo (The Confessions of Saint Augustine)

tags: general, rest, restlessness, revelation
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"For I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe-that unless I believe I shall not understand.
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— Anselm of Canterbury

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"Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything."
— Gregory of Nyssa

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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

tags: activism
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"If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans."
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it."
— Karl Marx

tags: politic
43 people liked it

"It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things"
— Donald Miller

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"There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
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— Brother Lawrence

tags: contemplative, inspirational
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"The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them."
— Simone de Beauvoir

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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: writing
16 people liked it

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, joy
232 people liked it

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer
102 people liked it

"It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem."
— Wallace Stevens

tags: inspirational
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"Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences."
— Thomas Merton (The Sign of Jonas)

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"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
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"If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: religion
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"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."
— Wittgenstein, Ludwig

tags: philosophers, philosophy, religion, wittgenstein
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"If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)

tags: philosophy
24 people liked it

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy, religion
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"“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”"
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
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"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: belief
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