Choice and Faith

Choice

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”  ~ Kofi Annan 
“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there.  What you choose to do with them is up to you.  ~ Richard Bach 
We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences."  ~ Eric Butterworth 
“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”  ~ Stephen R. Covey 
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”  ~ Joanne
Kathleen Rowling 

Faith

"Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
They came to the edge.
He pushed them, and they flew."  ~ Apollinaire 
“Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of faith is to see what we believe.”  ~ St. Augustine
"Surrender control to the supreme wisdom and authority of God and to the Divine in your soul.  Step into the void with courage.  Learn to say, "I don't know."  That's not blind faith.  It's pure faith that will allow God and your spirit to lead you wherever your soul wants and needs to go." ~ Melody Beattie 
"Faith is not something to grasp.  It is a state to grow into." ~ Gandhi 
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly"  ~ Patrick Overton 
"Faith is like love:  it cannot be forced." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer 
"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." ~ Rabindranath
Tagore
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations." 
~ Elton Trueblood
"Vision looks upward and becomes faith."  ~Stephen S. Wise