Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teamwork, Imagination, Community

• I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Power, Community, Listening

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

• Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

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  Meaningful, World, May

  Terry Tempest Williams (2001). “Leap”, Vintage

• I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

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  Wind, Water, Community

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.129, Vintage

• We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same thing and say No, we are not rolling over and No, this is not a corporate enterprise. This is democracy in the fullest sense and we must have regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.

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  Speaks Out, Land, Justice

• To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

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  Writing, Ego, Curiosity

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.42, Macmillan

• When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

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  Writing, Bird, Soul

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.90, Vintage

• But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. 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

  Teacher, Ideas, Grace

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.198, Vintage

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