Ten Quotes on Faith

Nothing beats the Lenten season in reminding a Catholic about his spirituality and faith. Certainly not Christmas. A season commemorating the birth of Christ is far too joyous a celebration to be able to induce serious soul-searching and introspection. Didn't you notice that our relationship with God comes to the fore in times of need, suffering or great sorrow? That flow is from us to Him. During Lent, it's the reverse flow of this relationship that is highlighted--from Him to us. By reliving His passion and ultimate sacrifice on the cross during this season, we are in effect reminded to renew our faith in the Almighty. Here are ten quotes that explore the various dimensions of this thing we call FAITH:

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. -William James

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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. -George Seaton

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Faith means not wanting to know what is true. -Friedrich Nietzche

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Faith is knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. -Kahlil Gibran

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Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. -Unknown

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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. -St. Thomas Aquinas

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. -Henry David Thoreau

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Faith is taking the first step even when when you don't see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King

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When the solution is simple, God is answering. -Albert Einstein

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Ten Quotes on Credibility

Stepping back to survey my recent posts in two of my blogs, I realized that I have unconsciously choosen to write about a common theme--CREDIBILITY--in both, although one is an investment banker's blog and the other, for the most part a political blog. We probably have an emotional weather vane of sorts that changes direction periodically, sometimes triggered internally and, at times, externally. For whatever reason, the topics that caught my fancy lately had "credibility" as their common thread, so maybe it's as good as any to be my ten featured quotes today:

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. -Friedrich Nietzsche

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The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have. -Brian Koslow

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Credibility is like virginity. Once you lose it, you can never get it back. -Unknown

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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved--commitment to a scenario. -Jean Baudrillard

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Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company. -Scott Adams

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For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility gap. -Richard Clopton

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Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. -Lisa Guerrero

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I think there has to be some credibility to the humor, especially if situation comedy has to have a situation. And some of them don't. -Dick Van Dyke

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In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want. -Brit Hume

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You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in. -Bradley Whitford

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Ten Quotes on Change

The bottomline in the ongoing political drama in the Philippines is the increasingly impatient clamor for leadership change and moral transformation. In America, change is also the winning battlecry of Barack Obama. Actually, in many aspects of life in many parts around the world, the mantra is change. This is why I chose it as my theme in this post today. See if you can learn an additional lesson or two about CHANGE in the following quotes:

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -Alan Cohen

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something. -Woodrow Wilson

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. -Abraham Lincoln

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -Harold Wilson

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. -Anatole France

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Change always comes bearing gifts. -Price Pritchett

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. -William Blake

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The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. -Jawaharlal Nehru

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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. -Ellen Glasgow