Abyss Quote by William James Download Open image “To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abyss Doubt Faith Leap Religion
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Doubt and faith are equally charged in opposite directions. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get! — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Doubt sees the obstacles. Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night. Faith sees the day. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as… — William James Copy Share
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it… — William James Copy Share
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made… — William James Copy Share
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it is confined to the genitals. Just a small ripple in the genitals-and finished. It is not like possession when the whole body moves into a whirlpool and you are lost in the abyss. For a… — Anonymous Copy Share
