Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 233.
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) American theologian and writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 583.
“Redeemers always reach the world too late.
God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”
Peter Porter (1929–2010) British poet
"A Tale of Two Pieties", in The Chair of Babel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 51.
“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
What I Think (1956), p. 142
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Der Dichter, 1910. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 325.
“Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.”
Jonathan Sacks (1948) British rabbi
The Case for God, first broadcast on BBC1, 6 September 2010
Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet
Songs of Kabîr (1915)
Context: O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?
It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body:
If He is found now, He is found then,
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923–2006) US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale
The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984), p. 65.
Alternate version" Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.
in "Christianity as an enfolding circle," U.S. News & World Report (June 26, 1989), p. 57
“Faith is a universal human phenomenon. All people live by some faith.”
Roger Haight (1936) American theologian
Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter One, Faith As A Dimension of The Human, p. 15
“That's what faith is about — living with paradox.”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
London: Coronet Books, 1984, p. 78
The World Is Made of Glass (1983)