Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.
