“The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
#16
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 45
“The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
#16
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.”
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) British politician
Epigram; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Alone, as before, in the universe
Without hope and without love!..”
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) Russian writer, poet and painter
"The Demon" (1830)
Poems
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Helen Keller book Optimism
Optimism (1903)
Variant: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement
“Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago