{"id":6022,"date":"2011-10-17T06:47:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T10:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/?p=6022"},"modified":"2011-08-26T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T13:00:01","slug":"quotes-on-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2011\/10\/quotes-on-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Quotes On Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?\u201d \u2013Maurice Freehill<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.\u201d \u2013Hebrews 11:1<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything \u2026 is always changing, moment to moment.\u201d \u2013Pema Chodron<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.\u201d -Meister Eckhart<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a crack, a crack in everything. That\u2019s how the light gets in.\u201d \u2013Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is fear\u2013in the old sense of awe\u2013that allows us to recognize the holy in our midst.\u201d \u2013Kathleen Norris<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaints are sinners who kept on going.\u201d \u2014 Robert Louis Stevenson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.\u201d \u2013Richard Bach<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are restless unless they find their rest in thee.\u201d \u2013St. Augustine<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA worldly loss often turns into spiritual gain.\u201d \u2013Hazrat Inayat Khan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lies. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.\u201d \u2013Black Elk<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever think that God&#8217;s delays are God&#8217;s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.\u201d \u2014 Georges-Louis Leclerc<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.\u201d \u2013Mother Teresa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?\u201d \u2013Maurice Freehill \u201cFaith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.\u201d \u2013Hebrews 11:1 \u201cThat nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. 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