You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.

Take the first step. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

This may well be," I said, "the darkest hour just before dawn. We have moved all of these months with the daring faith that God was with us in our struggle. The many experiences of days gone by have vindicated that faith in a most unexpected manner. We must go out with the same faith, the same conviction. We must believe that a way will be made out of no way.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for faith in general, and to prepare the credit for that which was afterwards actually to be offered on credit; just as if, to introduce paper money, we tried to appeal to the fact that the value of the ringing coin depended merely on the stamp the State put on it.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.