“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”

“Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”

Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) Chilean poet-diplomat, writer, educator and feminist.

“It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.”

George Orwell book A Clergyman's Daughter

“some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we're all alive
tonight.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Outside the wind of Jehovah still beat on the door, trying to enter. There was no other sound. Not a jackal on the earth, nor a crow in the air. Every living thing cowered in fear, waiting for the Lord's anger to pass.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ

“There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“Of the truths within our reach… the mind and the heart are as doors by which they are received into the soul, but… few enter by the mind, whilst they are brought in crowds by the rash caprices of the will, without the council of reason.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved.”

John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father