Anne Sexton on faith

When I’m writing, I know I’m doing the thing I was born to do.

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.

Faith … is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity, Book III, Chapter 11 “Faith” (1952)

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Augustine of Hippo354–430Sermones 4.1.1