Alan Redpath Quotes

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord.

Alan Redpath

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• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Peace
  • Hands

• The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hands
  • Class
  • Ignorant

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Hands
  • Mystery
  • Intelligence

• I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Find

• I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Faith
  • Mystic

• I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• Each one prays to God according to his own light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Light

• If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Country
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Faith

• There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Job
  • Hope

• What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Faith
  • Rest
  • Process

• At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • God
  • Strong
  • Faith

• I now understand the need for faith-pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith-as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Small
  • Faith

• Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;Or at least, faith unbelief.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Joy

• We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.

  

  Bernice King
  • Business
  • Future
  • Faith

• I'm either in heels or barefoot.

  

  Christina Hendricks

• You're not going to hit a bunch of three-run homers every game.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Game

• I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Life
  • True
  • Person

• Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord.

  

  Alan Redpath
  • Faith
  • Hands
  • Receive