Sydney Carter: Going

Sydney Carter was British musician and poet. Explore interesting quotes on going.

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“All shall be well, I'm telling you, let the winter come and go
All shall be well again, I know.”

Julian of Norwich (1983)

“They buried my body
And they thought I'd gone,
But I am the Dance,
And I still go on.”

Lord of the Dance (1963)

“Loud are the bells of Norwich and the people come and go.
Here by the tower of Julian, I tell them what I know.”

Julian of Norwich (1983)

“Coming and going by the dance, I see
That what I am not is a part of me.
Dancing is all that I can ever trust,
The dance is all I am, the rest is dust.
I will believe my bones and live by what
Will go on dancing when my bones are not.”

Written as an epitaph based upon his lyrics to "Lord of the Dance".

“Faith is more basic than language or theology. Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality. Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future. Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on. Even though (because it rejects a doctrine) it is now described as "doubt."”

This, I believe, is the kind of faith that Christ commended.
Obituary in The Independent (17 March 2001)