“Always before in moments of crisis I called on that power we call God to help me through. This time, having lost faith in others and my faith in myself, I had lost my hope in God too. Now that hope returned. I really believed that He hadn't wanted me to die.”
On the aftermath of her suicide attempt, p. 160.
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“I too, having lost faith
in language, have placed my faith in language.”
Lighthead (2010), "Snow for Wallace Stevens"
Source: God's Problem (2008), Ch. 1: 'Suffering and a Crisis of Faith', p. 1
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 598.
The Crisis No. II.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
The New York Times October 15, 1986, MAN IN THE NEWS; WITNESS TO EVIL: ELIEZER WEISEL, By JOSEPH BERGER http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/15/world/man-in-the-news-witness-to-evil-eliezer-weisel.html
“I put my faith in me, and do you know why? Because I have never lost!”
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 18
Context: "We don't seem to be overflowing with luck." "You make your own. I put no faith in gods, Lake. Never have. If they exist, they care very little— if at all— about ordinary mortals. I put my faith in me, and do you know why? Because I have never lost!"
Source: Cuba’s Conscience https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2012/03/12/cubas-conscience/ (December 2011)
“I hope to God that He
Unswervingly believes in me.”
"Agnostic".
Rhymes for the Irreverent (1965)
Context: No matter how much I probe and prod,
I cannot quite believe in God;
But oh, I hope to God that He
Unswervingly believes in me.