Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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