Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“Don't measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.”
“If there is a faith which can move mountains, then it is a faith in one’s own strength.”
Wenn es einen Glauben gibt, der Berge versetzen kann, so ist es der Glaube an die eigene Kraft.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 22.
“What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.”
Source: Midwinter (1923), Ch. X
“Men do not move mountains; it is only necessary to create the illusion that mountains move.”
As quoted in The Great Illusion, 1900-1914, Oron J. Hale, Harper & Row (1971) p. 109
Undated
Sec. 51; often paraphrased as: "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything".
The Antichrist (1888)
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
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“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting!”
Variant: Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
“… to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains.”
Remark as quoted in "Gunpowder Treason and Plot" (1976) by Cyril Northcote Parkinson. It was said in response to one of the lords of the King's Privy Chamber, who had asked what Fawkes intended to do with such a large amount of gunpowder.
