Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.
     - Terry Tempest Williams.

Above all, I would attach the greatest importance to spiritual values, faith in oneself, the purity of one's inner self, which to me is the greatest virtue of all. 
    - U Thant, the first Secretary-General of the United Nations

Faith is not being sure. It is not being sure, but betting with your last cent.
    - Mary Jean Iron

Faith is always an adventure.
    - Elsie Chamberlain

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A new reader contacted me this morning asking about Nan Merrill. Nan was an old friend and the woman who founded the gentle, obscure little newsletter Friends of Silence . It was a publication based on faith, inspired by faith. She’d send it out from her tiny apartment above her son’s garage in Vermont. It was supported solely by donations. No website, no email address. She’d take a pile of spiritual and religious quotations each month — quotations on peace, acceptance, love, faith — pray over them, throw them up in the air and depending on where they landed and how they landed, identify what would go in the next month’s single-page, double-sided newsletter.

More on Nan and Friends of Silence in Projects and Random Thoughts.