Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
Faith in the power of prayer _ is _ faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is _ the essence of faith in general. _ [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, _ The specific object of faith, therefore, is miracle; _ To faith nothing is impossible, and miracle only gives actuality to this omnipotence of faith[.]
The Essence of Christianity
Quote Detail
Faith in the power of prayer _ is _ faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is _ the essence of faith in general. _ [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, _ The specific object of faith, therefore, is miracle; _ To faith nothing is impossible, and miracle only gives actuality to this omnipotence of faith[.]
Quick Answer
What this quote page tells you
This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.
Related Quotes
More quote cards from the same area
__e are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a Miracle.
If you cannot reach a state of utter oneness with each other, how do you expect to solve anything? Separate the world will crumble; together the world will thrive.
[T]he understanding or the reason is the necessary being. _ [I]f there were no reason, no consciousness, all would be nothing; existence would be equivalent to non-existence. Consciousness first founds the distinction between existence and non-existence. In consciousness is first revealed the value of existence, the value of nature.
Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; _ it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself.
Totally present in this moment for you.