I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ~C.S. Lewis
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~Corrie ten Boom
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ~Søren Kierkegaard
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you. ~C. JoyBell C.
It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave. ~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. ~Criss Jami, Killosophy
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. ~Abraham Lincoln
You have as much laughter as you have faith. ~Martin Luther
when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus ~Corrie ten Boom
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. ~John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide
God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. ~Kelly Clarkson
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. ~Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. ~Martin Luther
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong. ~Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes. ~Jim Butcher, White Night
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~Alfred Tennyson
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. ~A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ~Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. ~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God. ~A.W. Tozer
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ~Thomas Aquinas
Head up, heart open. To better days! ~T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. ~Jim Valvano
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. ~Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you. ~Cara Lockwood, I Do -- But I Don't
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. ~Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith. ~Lauren Kate, Torment
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. ~Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ~Mahatma Gandhi
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. ~Paulo Coelho, Brida
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ~C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want. ~Greg Behrendt
I talk to God but the sky is empty. ~Sylvia Plath
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. ~Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love
A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again. ~C. JoyBell C.
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. ~J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. ~Helen Keller
Keep Going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end. ~Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works? ~Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see. ~Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence. ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. ~Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ~G.K. Chesterton
Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much. ~Lisa Wingate
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. ~Charles M. Schulz
belief is the death of intelligence. ~Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. ~Thomas Merton
Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces. ~Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. ~Abraham Lincoln
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. ~Marilynne Robinson, Home
Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward. ~Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you did—and shared those same beliefs? ~Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ~Carl Sagan
Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was. ~Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Doubt everything. Find your own light. ~Gautama Buddha
You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet.. ~Libba Bray
I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith. ~Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. ~Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly) ~Deepak Chopra
Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~Madeleine L'Engle
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. ~Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. ~Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. ~Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace ~Mother Teresa
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. ~Shannon L. Alder
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . . ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. ~Martin Luther
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. ~Edward Teller
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. ~Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. ~R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go. ~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. ~Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
My soul is in the sky. ~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. ~Shannon L. Alder
Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! ~Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. ~Bernard Branson
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one ~Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. ~Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. ~Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ~Roger A. Caras
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose. ~Arnold Bennett
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you. ~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew. ~Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. ~C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. ~Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. ~Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be. ~T.H. White, Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in. ~Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. ~Timothy J. Keller
If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself. ~Goldie Hawn
Work without love is slavery. ~Mother Teresa
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. ~Orson F. Whitney
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer. ~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. ~Roopleen
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am. ~Albert Einstein
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. ~Rick Warren
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. ~Beatrix Potter
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. ~Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci
There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone. ~Shannon L. Alder
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. ~Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
You can't know, you can only believe - or not. ~C.S. Lewis
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is. ~Khaled Hosseini
Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF. ~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him.
Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. ~Thomas Merton
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. ~Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward – your breakthrough may be just around the corner. ~Roy T. Bennett
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. ~Ezra Taft Benson
[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop. ~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ~Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. ~Criss Jami, Killosophy
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. ~Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility. ~Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. ~Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. ~Sam Harris
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. ~David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace. ~Ezra Taft Benson
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ~Anonymous, The Holy Bible: New American Standard Version, NASB
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring) ~Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring
We live by faith and not by sight. ~Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy. ~Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come. ~Jeffrey R. Holland
When everything gets answered, it's fake. ~Sean Penn
I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle. ~Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ~E.B. White
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief. ~Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. ~Kahlil Gibran
The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. ~David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. ~Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. ~Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ~Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth. ~John Piper, Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again?
What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe. ~Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. ~Madeleine L'Engle
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~Corrie ten Boom
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ~Søren Kierkegaard
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you. ~C. JoyBell C.
It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave. ~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. ~Criss Jami, Killosophy
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. ~Abraham Lincoln
You have as much laughter as you have faith. ~Martin Luther
when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus ~Corrie ten Boom
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. ~John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide
God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. ~Kelly Clarkson
Faith Quotes
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. ~Thomas S. MonsonI had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. ~Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. ~Martin Luther
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong. ~Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes. ~Jim Butcher, White Night
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~Alfred Tennyson
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. ~A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ~Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. ~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God. ~A.W. Tozer
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ~Thomas Aquinas
Head up, heart open. To better days! ~T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. ~Jim Valvano
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. ~Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you. ~Cara Lockwood, I Do -- But I Don't
Faith Quotes
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into. ~Ben Goldacre, Bad ScienceWhen someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. ~Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith. ~Lauren Kate, Torment
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. ~Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ~Mahatma Gandhi
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. ~Paulo Coelho, Brida
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ~C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want. ~Greg Behrendt
I talk to God but the sky is empty. ~Sylvia Plath
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. ~Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love
A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again. ~C. JoyBell C.
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. ~J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. ~Helen Keller
Keep Going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end. ~Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith Quotes
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? ~C.S. LewisBelieve something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works? ~Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see. ~Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence. ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. ~Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ~G.K. Chesterton
Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much. ~Lisa Wingate
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. ~Charles M. Schulz
belief is the death of intelligence. ~Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. ~Thomas Merton
Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces. ~Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Faith Quotes
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. ~Joseph CampbellI have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. ~Abraham Lincoln
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. ~Marilynne Robinson, Home
Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward. ~Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you did—and shared those same beliefs? ~Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ~Carl Sagan
Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was. ~Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Doubt everything. Find your own light. ~Gautama Buddha
You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet.. ~Libba Bray
I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith. ~Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. ~Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly) ~Deepak Chopra
Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~Madeleine L'Engle
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. ~Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. ~Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. ~Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Faith Quotes
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. ~Alan W. WattsThe Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace ~Mother Teresa
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. ~Shannon L. Alder
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . . ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. ~Martin Luther
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. ~Edward Teller
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. ~Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. ~R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go. ~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. ~Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
My soul is in the sky. ~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. ~Shannon L. Alder
Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! ~Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. ~Bernard Branson
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one ~Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. ~Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. ~Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ~Roger A. Caras
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose. ~Arnold Bennett
Faith Quotes
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope. ~Pittacus Lore, The Power of SixYou are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you. ~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew. ~Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. ~C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. ~Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. ~Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be. ~T.H. White, Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in. ~Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. ~Timothy J. Keller
If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself. ~Goldie Hawn
Work without love is slavery. ~Mother Teresa
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. ~Orson F. Whitney
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer. ~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. ~Roopleen
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am. ~Albert Einstein
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. ~Rick Warren
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. ~Beatrix Potter
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. ~Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci
There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone. ~Shannon L. Alder
Faith Quotes
Faith ~acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. ~Dan Brown, The Da Vinci CodeFaith consists in believing what reason cannot. ~Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
You can't know, you can only believe - or not. ~C.S. Lewis
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is. ~Khaled Hosseini
Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF. ~Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him.
Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. ~Thomas Merton
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. ~Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward – your breakthrough may be just around the corner. ~Roy T. Bennett
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. ~Ezra Taft Benson
[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop. ~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ~Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. ~Criss Jami, Killosophy
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. ~Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility. ~Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. ~Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. ~Sam Harris
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. ~David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
Faith Quotes
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically. ~Ken Follett, The Pillars of the EarthWhen all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace. ~Ezra Taft Benson
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ~Anonymous, The Holy Bible: New American Standard Version, NASB
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring) ~Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring
We live by faith and not by sight. ~Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy. ~Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come. ~Jeffrey R. Holland
When everything gets answered, it's fake. ~Sean Penn
I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle. ~Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ~E.B. White
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief. ~Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. ~Kahlil Gibran
The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. ~David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. ~Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. ~Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ~Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth. ~John Piper, Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again?
What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe. ~Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. ~Madeleine L'Engle