Source: The Witch Of Portobello
“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 37.
“Every thing that is around us strives to draw us away from the true faith.”
Source: Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855), p. 9
Discourses on the Condition of the Great
Context: It is not your strength and your natural power that subjects all these people to you. Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires; alleviate their necessities; let your pleasure consist in being beneficent; advance them as much as you can, and you will act like the true king of desire.
Last Notebook (1942) p. 137
First and Last Notebooks (1970)
Context: In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled — that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.
The New York Times Magazine (7 June 1970)
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. Vol. II, ch. 27.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
'I watched a man stabbed in a London street - and felt nothing' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2331021/I-watched-man-stabbed-London-street--felt-nothing.html (25 May, 2013)
