Theme

Faith

Prayer, doubt, scripture, and the long argument with God. The shelf does not take a side. It keeps the words people have actually lived inside.

1. I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.Anne FrankThe Diary of a Young Girl
2. Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee.Augustine of HippoConfessions
3. The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.Johann Sebastian BachA note in his musical instruction
4. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell
5. To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.William BlakeAuguries of Innocence
6. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.Dante AlighieriInferno
7. Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule.The DhammapadaDhammapada
8. Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.John DonneHoly Sonnets
9. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.Albert EinsteinLetter to Max Born
10. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.Mohandas K. GandhiStatement at the Great Trial
11. You have a right to the work alone, never to its fruits. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.The Bhagavad GitaBhagavad Gita
12. All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.Julian of NorwichRevelations of Divine Love
13. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.Carl JungMemories, Dreams, Reflections
14. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.Martin Luther King Jr.I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
15. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.Abraham LincolnSecond Inaugural Address
16. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.The Gospel of LukeThe Gospel of Luke
17. Here I stand. I can do no other.Martin LutherLater accounts of the Diet of Worms
18. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.The Gospel of MatthewThe Gospel of Matthew
19. What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?MicahMicah
20. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine…Theodore ParkerOf Justice and the Conscience
21. The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.Blaise PascalPensées
22. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.Paul the ApostleThe First Letter to the Corinthians
23. Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope.The Qur’anThe Quran
24. Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.Jalal al-Din RumiMasnavi
25. Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.William ShakespeareSonnet 116
26. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath TagoreFireflies
27. For the love of money is the root of all evil.Paul the ApostleThe First Letter to Timothy
28. Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.William TyndaleJohn Foxe, Actes and Monuments

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