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If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have evoked the rise of another Gnostic religion. But, by the grace of Mother Nature, I am born in an era of Science and Reasoning. Hence, I have dissected my own experience of Absolute Divinity as well as the experiences of all the religious giants in my works, in order to discover the physical truth underneath these apparently supernatural experiences.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
It is in the nature of the human mind to give in, and hold on, to the source of solace with all the might it can muster. Life is hard and any figure that tends to ease the subjective perception of that hardship, attains a high pedestal of utmost reverence in the realm of the individual mind. It all takes place at a molecular level in the human brain with the purpose of self-preservation.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
don't focus on the small pieces, focus on the whole picture
— Manuel Corazzari
Faith without any actions in accordance with God’s will is a dead faith
— Sunday Adelaja
When you believe the TRUTH, there's an incredible freedom. You're free to live without fear.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, A Secret Sacrifice
Only through our faith do we allow Him to move in our lives
— Sunday Adelaja
Only absolute and unshakable faith in God can make us rule over the world
— Sunday Adelaja
Only our faith will allow God to prepare the table in front our enemies
— Sunday Adelaja
We cannot lose the battle, if we release our faith knowing that God can do a miracle
— Sunday Adelaja
How confident we are in our faith is how victorious we will be
— Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes we don’t have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith
— Sunday Adelaja
In our process of spiritual maturity, our faith needs to attain bigger dimensions
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to mature in the knowledge of God and His word, and then our faith will grow as well
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to grow from faith to faith so that we can have victory over the world
— Sunday Adelaja
The mindset of a Christian should be based on his faith that God can change the circumstances in His life
— Sunday Adelaja
Faith is faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only people who have solid faith overcome the world
— Sunday Adelaja
It is time to get strengthened in faith and know that the blessings of God are stronger than the devil’s attack
— Sunday Adelaja
Belief and faith are great, but very few peoplehave been led astray by thinking for themselves.
— Leah Remini, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
God lives in and through the human mind, and not in any church, synagogue, temple or mosque.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
Wherever there is ‘faith’ without regeneration it has to be that the uncured enmity of the natural man to spiritual things remains.
— Iain H. Murray, Evangelical Holiness: And Other Addresses
Many people have argued that love is the prerequisite to courage. I beg to differ. Anything we are afraid to lose will not give way to courage. Time guarantees we will all eventually lose everything and everyone. Therefore, courage can only come by having faith in God.
— Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
You blast me open and then You stand back and watch My feeble attempts To deal with myself. Where do I turn In my now desperate need for love? You are not there. There is no one else to turn to For I have made you my Everything. And in my exhaustion From my desperate moments,I slip into myself And there I find God waiting for me To love Him to love me to love you Because you are the matchmaker. I thought He was leading me to you But, surprise surprise, You were leading me to Him.
— Kate McGahan
You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn’t die. That is when I began to believe.God was real, and he hated us.
— Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The First Heretic
Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God--the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend, He's crazy about you.
— Max Lucado
The grace is not about forgetting, but knowing you can start anew.
— Ana Tejano, Keep the Faith
It is difficult to have faith when our hearts are consumed by fear, but it is when we are afraid that we need to hang onto our faith the most.
— A.A. Frias, The Heaven Corporation
Three ways to Change: First is behaving Positively, Second is behaving Positively and the Third is stop being Negative."- Gavhi Theron.P
— Gavhi Theron
....let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end........Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.
— Robert Harris
If the tenacity of flowing water weakens the structure of a solid rock, what more; if the ordinary visionaries become just as tenacious.
— Wayne Chirisa
If one attains only the faith in the Self, he will not experience fear anywhere at all, fear will go away.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is everything in this world. But check and see what is allotted to you…. if you are truthful, you will get everything. People say that God helps those who are truthful. No, it’s not like that. A truthful person receives divinity [aishwarya (Godly energies)]. It requires from one; truthful intentions, honesty and real faith (loyalty).
— Dada Bhagwan
I’m not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can’t believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and control one another. God isn’t like that. God is better than that, better than us.
— Marshall Thornton, The Lies That Bind
Whilst people wholeheartedly talk wrongly about you openly, wholeheartedly talk rightly to God in silence and in faith! He knows everything! He sees everything! He hears everything! And He has the very right answer to everything!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
But I cannot accept a vision of You as an engineer who spends His days maintaining the machine of morality. I cannot take the idea of You as an optimizer, introducing evil into human affairs in an attempt to create the best of all possible worlds. I cannot bear this cold mathematician's God who sees all the universe as nothing more than an elaborate problem to be solved. Such a world is a world with no meaning, one in which one history is no more or less preferable to any other.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
Encouragement is the faith of enthusiasm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If each hair on our head is accounted for
—  then wouldn't even the smallest of prayers matter?
The term “musalman” refers to someone with “musallam iman”, that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
A person may hold his own beliefs and creeds to be dearest, and nourish them with all his might, but the moment he starts preaching the exclusive greatness and dominance over all other systems of beliefs and creeds, the world begins to plunge into a death trap.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
The one ultimate rule of the Quranic fundamentalists is “there is one God and Mohammed is his prophet”. Everything beyond that not only is bad, but must be destroyed forthwith. At moment’s notice, every man or woman, who does not exactly believe in that, must be killed.... This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
Why should a religion claim that it is not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason! If one does not take the standard of reason, there cannot be any true judgment, even in the case of religion.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
Fundamentalism not only fuels devastating acts of violence, but also all kinds of primitive prejudicial behaviors, such as Misogyny, Polygamy, Homophobia, and Islamophobia.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
If we grow in faith, we shall never seize to bear fresh fruit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sacred fire never goes out.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes we simply don't want to face the truth about ourselves; the myth reads so much better. Sometimes we do not seek help because it will mean we have to change, and change is painful and unpredictable. To me, now, faith is bringing all that is true about our lives into the blinding light of God's grace. It is believing that He will still be there at the end of the journey, and so will we, perhaps a little bloodied, probably with a limp, and possibly, as the Skin Horse said, with most of our hair loved off, but we will be there.
— Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.
— Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
I still don’t know where the river begins, or where it ends. I don’t know where it comes from, or where it goes. I don’t know what it looked like yesterday, or what it will look like tomorrow,”Father Dominic put forth.“How the heck am I supposed to see all that from here?” Thomas pleaded.Father Dominic smiled, his body shaking slightly as he silently laughed.“Exactly, Thomas. Exactly. Now, think of your life as this river. If I were to ask you to describe it to me, how much of your life would you be able to share?”This was a question Thomas had never thought about before. Considering his life like this felt strange, uncomfortable.“I guess I’d share just about as much. I’d only talk about the part I can see right now. I guess I’d only tell you about what I know,” Thomas offered.
— Michael Chrobak, Foundations of Faith
The sacred fire is faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have a mustard seed
—  and I am not afraid to use it
For the first time in my life, I'm doubting my faith, and it terrifies me.For the first time, I want to change the rules. For the first time I wonder: does it matter what it says on your skin, when what's at stake is your soul?
— Alice Broadway, Ink
You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don’t be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed.""That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose."No," he said. "That's faith.
— Diana Gabaldon, Fanget i tiden
Faith in action works and gets far good results than faith
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Patience is a firm faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is an active force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Increase in faith, fade any fears.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in God is force of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Throwing down your staff is letting go and letting God. And that's counterintuitive for those of us who are control freaks. As our executive pastor Joel Schmidgall likes to say, "You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
Words backed by faith and a true robust action have more power than words!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In patience endurance, we know the faith of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.
— Frances Hardinge
Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The fight of faith can only be won with the grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With the pursuit of faith, I am a free soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
When it comes to loving people, let's not allow it to be something we do on the side. Let's make it a lifestyle. Whether we are at the gas station, picking up groceries, even waiting to get our car repaired, there is always an open opportunity to love someone in need.
— Jarrid Wilson, Jesus Swagger: Break Free from Poser Christianity
Love is better than hate.Faith is greater than fear.Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.
— Kemi Sogunle
If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
We all want to spend eternity with God. We just don't want to spend time with Him. We stand and stare from a distance, satisfied with superficiality. We Facebook more than we seek His face. We text more than we study The Text. And our eyes aren't fixed on Jesus. They're fixed on our iPhones and iPads - emphasis on "i." Then we wonder why God feels so distant. It's because we're hugging the rim. We wonder why we're bored with our faith. It's because we're holding out.We want joy without sacrifice.We want character without suffering.We want success without failure.We want gain without pain.We want a testimony without the test.We want it all without going all out for it.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
Fear could move mountains if fear only tried.
— Homin Hieger
Answering the call of God is not something we do after details have been laid out. Nor is it something we do because others want us to do it. It's something we do because we know it's right. Because we love Him.
— Sondra Kraak, One Plus One Equals Trouble
God will never tempt you. It's not in His nature. In fact, He promises to provide an escape route for every tempting situation. But I can promise you this: God will test your faith. And those tests won't get easier. They will get progressively harder as the stakes get higher. And those tests will undoubtedly revolve around what is most important to you...God will test you to make sure your identity and your security are found in the cross of Jesus Christ. And God will go after anything you trust in more than Him until you put it on the altar.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
Religion? Choose the truth path, true doctrine and true faith. Not all of the religion are safe except the religion of the Church of Christ. those who entered the door of Christ will be saved.
— -Kurt Reiner C. Suarez
‪So you've been having a tough time. You don't know how long more you can hold on. Remember bad days don't last forever. Keep patience alive!
— Mufti Ismail Menk
Generous leaders have faith in others to succeed. In turn, they receive tenfold loyalty, commitment, and a positive outcome.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
A faith that is not tested is never proved trustworthy.
— Marcia Furrow, 365 Days of Grace: Experiencing God's Grace from Genesis to Revelation
By morning, Adelaide was beginning to understand why she'd never completely understood how God worked. Given that He had made the bewildering, maddening, incomprehensible species that was man from His own image, it stood to reason that the Creator would be a complicated mass of logic never meant to be understood by the female mind. That, or the fall of man in the Garden of Eden had taken them even further off the path than she'd ever realized
— Kristi Ann Hunter, An Uncommon Courtship
Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.
— Sondra Kraak, One Plus One Equals Trouble
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?”“I’d do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been.”“Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.
— Michael Marshall Smith, Stories: All-New Tales
Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.
— Michael Marshall Smith, Stories: All-New Tales
No one says: when my family treated me as a stranger, I preferred the company of strangers, and I walked among strangers and what did I find but God in every one of their faces.
— Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith
No one says: I broke rules, I broke rules, I broke rules - I broke all the rules. That one. And that one. And that one too. Yes, I did.
— Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith
There are spiritual gifts like mercy, faith, or generosity that enable people to set the standard, so to speak. But just because you don't have that spiritual gift doesn't mean you aren't held to any standard at all. Even if you aren't gifted in that way, you're still called to live mercifully, faithfully, and generously. You might not set the standard, but you need to meet the standard. There is a baseline that all of us are called to. When the opportunity presents itself, we need to show mercy, exercise faith, and give generously. In the same sense, all of us are called to take risks. If it doesn't involve risk, it doesn't exercise faith.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
I don't know about you, but I want God to reveal the second step before I take the first step of faith. But I've discovered that if I don't take the first step, God generally won't reveal the next step...Most of us will only follow Christ to the point of precedence -- the place where we have been before. But ...If you want God to do something new, you cannot keep doing what you've always done. You've got to push past the fear of the unknown. You've got to do something different.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
We want a money-back guarantee before we take a step of obedience, but that eliminates faith from the equation. Sometimes we need to take a flying leap of faith.We need to step into the conflict without knowing if we can resolve it. We need to share our faith without knowing how our friends will react to it. We need to pray for a miracle without knowing how God will answer. We need to put ourselves in a situation that activates a spiritual gift we've never exercised before. And we need to go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.If we want to discover new lands, we've got to lose sight of the shore. We've got to leave the Land of Familiarity behind. We've got to sail past the predictable. And when we do, we develop a spiritual hunger for the unprecedented and lose our appetite for the habitual. We also get a taste of God's favor.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce—it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a paradoxical and humble courage to grasp the whole temporal realm now by virtue of the absurd, and this is the courage of faith.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relations with the infinite, was entirely at home in the finite. Able to carry the jewel of faith, making the motions of the infinite, and as a result needing nothing but the finite and the usual. Whereas others sought the extraordinary in the world. Or wished to be what was gaped at.
— Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet
It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.
— Steven Magee
It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it will continue to happen until the end of time, or until man finds out he is not only what he thinks, but mostly what he feels. The body tires easily, but the spirit is always free and will help us get out, one day, from this infernal cycle of repeating the same mistakes every generation. Although thoughts always remain the same, there is something stronger, and this is called Love.
— Paulo Coelho
The more we grow in faith, the less we shall fear.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grow in the grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How can you be a lover of loveand not be a lover of God?It is impossible.
— Kamand Kojouri
Scripture doesn’t speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Your faith will abandon you in blink of an eye.
— Raubin Chaudhary
Don't throw away your faith because doubt is present, throw away your doubts because faith is present
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
In fighting those who serve devils one always his this on one's side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us. The moment we disable the human pawns enough to make them useless to Hell, their own Masters finish the work for us. they break their tools.
— C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand.
— Stephen King, The Stand
Is it 'Stockholm syndrome' when your God has never once misguided your steps? I think not! Let the lost ones dart across the darkness, bashing into walls, pretending to love their ways as we delight in obedience to the footsteps of Christ which bring us to freedom. By Faith we wander - not because we are lost, but because we are free.
— Criss Jami
Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.
— Kamand Kojouri
-I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels.-What levels?-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.
— Tadeusz Konwicki
Faith is something you take a day at a time, not something you figured out at the start
— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Church isn’t about you! It’s about worshipping Jesus. Instead of being consumers, let’s go to church and ask what we can give Jesus because of all he has given us.
— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.
— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Utter frustration often precedes the breakthrough so stick with it and have faith in your journey.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Sadly, atheists are becoming everything they aren't supposed to be: obnoxious, oppressive, loud, pushy, smug, condescending and annoying. Since when did the definition of atheism become "an anti-religious person"? It's one thing to say "I don't believe in God because I see no proof in God. We'll just agree to disagree". It's another thing to make it your sworn duty to put down and berate religious people, to view them as primitive morons, to turn every conversation into a debate and to make it your mission to put forth this vision of a faith-free society fueled only by science and technology. This kind of oppression is against everything atheists stand for. Atheists believe in the freedom of choice, the choice to not be religious if one does not want to be. This does not mean being pushy or rude towards anybody else who has made their own choices to be religious. For some people, religion gives them a purpose, helps them cope with trauma and grief, gives them hope, gives them something to hold onto. So, as long as they aren't pushing their faith on others, why should atheists do the same thing to them?
— Rebecca McNutt
Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.
— Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
We need to be the church that serves and loves people now, today, exactly where they are. Until then, we are simply managing decline.
— Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.
— John M. Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down
People liked religion but they didn't want to have to excercise any faith. Religion was comforting with all its structure and its rules. It made people feel safe. But faith wasn't safe. Faith was hard and uncomfortable and forced people to step out on a limb.
— Amy Harmon, Making Faces
Leaders who aren't conduits are either dams of dry.
— Johnathan Key
If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual vigorous adulthood than to any other state we know.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Give God quality time, quality love, and quality prayer, and H will be pleased with your faithfulness and cover you with His grace.
— Gabriella Marigold Lindsay, Living F.I.T.: A 40-Day Guide to  Living Faithfully, Intentionally, and Tenaciously
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
You don't get to be a keeper of the faith without being a keeper of your brother.
— Johnathan Key
During hard times, such as serious illness, if you had to choose, which would you pick, healing or knowing God is with you? If you’re a Christian, maybe you'll get both, but knowing that, just as He said, He will be with us through anything and everything is the most comforting aspect of our God's nature. No other faith offers ‘the God who draws near’. No other faith offers the God who walked in our shoes, Jesus, the One who understands our troubles, not just by His omniscience but by actual experience.
— H.L. Wegley
God has been FAITHFUL to me, in Him I have FAITH.
— Gift Gugu Mona
God has been FAITHFUL to me, that why I have FAITH in Him.
— Gift Gugu Mona
God has been FAITHFUL to me, He still is and always will be; that's why I have FAITH in Him.
— Gift Gugu Mona
There is a period of one to two earth years that humans are to refrain from making big decisions. It’s because you don’t always make the best decisions when you are grieving. Those who make decisions in haste often live to regret them. You must move through the time of suffering, strengthening your faith and being willing to grow through the grief in order to be able to see things differently. As you grow, your blind faith will continue to open your eyes. You will see everything in a whole new light when you come out the other side of grief. Then you will be able to make very good decisions for yourself, better than ever, because of what you learned.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
She made me her everything. She didn’t realize then that when you make someone your everything, when they are gone you have nothing left. I have since learned that our Master sends us soul mates who teach us to depend on them and then we come to believe we cannot live without them. Then He takes them away to prove to us that we can indeed live without them, but also to prove that we cannot live without Him.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Doubt is a cancerous mindset that kills dreams before it becomes a reality. It destroys your passion and enthusiasm before you take a step. Kill doubt with faith.
— Oscar Bimpong
The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something. But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never know what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spare the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
A few nights after his conversion he asked how long this Gospel had been known in England. He was told that we had known it for some hundreds of years."What!" said he, amazed; "is it possible that for hundreds of years you have had the knowledge of those glad tidings in your possession, and yet have only now come to preach it to us? My father sought after the Truth for more than twenty years, and died without finding it. Oh, why did you not come sooner?
— Hudson Taylor, A Retrospect
How can we not ask at every turn, 'What is going to happen? How will this turn out?' The main thing is not to consent consciously to anxiety or a troubled mind. The moment you realize you are worrying, make very quickly an act of confidence: 'No, Jesus, You are there: nothing--nothing--happens, not a hair falls from our heads, without Your permission. I have no right to worry." Perhaps He is sleeping in the boat, but He is there. He is always there. He is all-powerful; nothing escapes His vigilance. He watches over each one of us 'as over the apple of His eye.' He is all love, all tenderness.
— Jean C.J. d'Elbée, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Therese of Lisieux
Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.
— Eric Liddell
Faith does not grow in a house of certainty.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
If, in the quiet of your heart, you feel something should be done, stop and consider whether it is in line with the character and teaching of Jesus. If so, obey that impulse to do it, and in doing so you will find it was God guiding you.
— Eric Liddell
How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough
— Colleen Carroll Campbell, My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
From faith,’ replied Emral Lanear, ‘do we not seek guidance?’ ‘Guidance, or the organized assembly and reification of all the prejudices you collectively hold dear?’ ‘You would not speak to us!’ ‘I grew to fear the power of words – their power, and their powerlessness. No matter how profound or perceptive, no matter how deafening their truth, they are helpless to defend themselves. I could have given you a list. I could have stated, in the simplest terms, that this is how I want you to behave, and this must be the nature of your belief, and your service, and your sacrifice. But how long, I wonder, before that list twisted in interpretation? How long before deviation yielded condemnation, torture, death?’ She slowly leaned forward. ‘How long, before my simple rules to a proper life become a call to war? To the slaughter of unbelievers? How long, Emral Lanear, before you begin killing in my name?’ ‘Then what do you want of us?’ Lanear demanded. ‘You could have stopped thinking like children who need to be told what’s right and what’s wrong. You damned well know what’s right and what’s wrong. It’s pretty simple, really. It’s all about harm. It’s about hurting, and not just physical, either. You want a statement for your faith in me? You wish me to offer you the words you claim to need, the rules by which you are to live your lives? Very well, but I should warn you, every deity worthy of worship will offer you the same prescription. Here it is, then. Don’t hurt other people. In fact, don’t hurt anything capable of suffering. Don’t hurt the world you live in, either, or its myriad creatures. If gods and goddesses are to have any purpose at all, let us be the ones you must face for the crimes of your life. Let us be the answer to every unfeeling, callous, cruel act you committed, every hateful word you uttered, and every spiteful wound you delivered.’ ‘At last!’ cried Emral Lanear. ‘You didn’t need me for that rule.
— Steven Erikson, Fall of Light
Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
— Kamand Kojouri
Your omnipresence is marvellous!I breathe and you enter me.I exhale and enter into you.
— Kamand Kojouri
In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
— C.S. Lewis
The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whichever that may be) is, I think, preferable. It is true that some people may find they have to wait in the hall for a considerable time, while others feel certain almost at once which door they must knock at. I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do get into your room you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light; and, of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling. In plain language, the question should never be: 'Do I like that kind of service?' but 'Are these doctrines true: is holiness here? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to knock at this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike of this particular door-keeper?'When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if there are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
— C.S. Lewis
But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.
— C.S. Lewis
Should one of them after having caught the greatness of Abraham's deed, but also the appallingness of it, venture out on the road, I would saddle my horse and ride along with him. At every stop before we came to the mountain in Moriah I would explain to him that he could still turn back, could rue the misunderstanding that he was called to be tried in a conflict of this nature, could confess that he lacked the courage, so that if God wanted Isaac God must take him himself.
— Johannes de Silentio, Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric
I am convinced that God is love; this thought has for me a pristine lyrical validity. When it is present to me I am unspeakably happy, when it is absent I yearn for it more intensely than the lover for the beloved; but I do not have faith; this courage I lack. God's love is for me, both in a direct and inverse sense, incommensurable with the whole of reality. I am not coward enough to whimper and moan on that account, but neither am I underhand enough to deny that faith is something far higher. I can very well carry on living in my manner, I am happy and satisfied, but my happiness is not that of faith and compared with that is indeed unhappy. I do not burden God with my petty cares, details don't concern me, I gaze only upon my love and keep its virginal flame pure and clear; faith is convinced that God troubles himself about the smallest thing. In this life I am content to be wedded to the left hand, faith is humble enough to demand the right; and that it is indeed humility I don't, and shall never, deny.
— Johannes de Silentio, Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric
Abraham I cannot understand; in a way all I can learn from him is to be amazed. If one imagines one can be moved to faith by considering the outcome of this story, one deceives oneself, and is out to cheat God of faith's first movement, one is out to suck the life-wisdom out of the paradox. One or another may succeed, for our age does not stop with faith, with its miracle of turning water into wine; it goes further, it turns wine into water.
— Johannes de Silentio, Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric
I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
‪Fear should stop you for a moment so you can determine whether you're willing to sacrifice something to get you want.
— Chris Burkmenn
The thing about the human race is, It turns up against everything or everyone that it loses its faith and belief on. And the saddest thing to witness is, Most of it have lost its faith towards humanity.
— Akshay Vasu
Then keep your confidence in the infinite mercy of the Savior. Say, like one mother I know who was distressed by the conduct of her children, 'Jesus, You love them too much not to save them.' Thank Him in advance for the Heaven which He is preparing for them...but, and this is very, very important--while you are suffering, wait in peace for the time of Jesus, the time chosen by Him to grant your request. He will perhaps make you wait a long time, precisely as a proof of your confidence...tell Him whatever your trial, that with His grace nothing will make you lose your profound peace, because you are sure of Him.
— Jean C.J. d'Elbée, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Therese of Lisieux
We live in an unbelieving age but one which is markedly and lopsidedly spiritual. There is one type of modern man who recognizes spirit in himself but who fails to recognize a being outside himself whom he can adore as Creator and Lord; consequently he has become his own ultimate concern. He says with Swinburne, "Glory to man in the highest, for he is the master of things," or with Steinbeck, "In the end was the word and the word was with men." For him, man has his own natural spirit of courage and dignity and pride and must consider it a point of honor to be satisfied with this. There is another type of modern man who recognizes a divine being not himself, but who does not believe that this being can be known anagogically or defined dogmatically or received sacramentally. Spirit and matter are separated for him. Man wanders about, caught in a maze of guilt he can't identify, trying to reach a God he can't approach, a God powerless to approach him. And there is another type of modern man who can neither believe nor contain himself in unbelief and who searches desperately, feeling about in all experience for the lost God.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God’s design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners.
— F. Willis Johnson
It is when the individual's faith is weak, not strong, that he will be afraid of an honest fictional representation of life; and when there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the supernatural is apt gradually to be lost.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.
— Criss Jami
And there lies the heart of it, perhaps: in unworthiness. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love: of accepting the possibility that God could ever love us.
— William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying.
— C.S. Lewis
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
— C.S. Lewis
And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature that is harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with God.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of the marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Success is not what I've done compared with what others have done. Success is what I've done compared with what God has called me to do.
— Lecrae Moore, Unashamed
Go and find what it is that inspires you, go and find what it is that you love and go do that until it hurts. Don’t quit, and don’t give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or times of joy, listen for that still, small voice. Know that God has been there from the beginning—and he will be there until the End.
— Chip & Joanna Gaines
Faith works by the knowledge of the Word.
— Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray
People make promises that they have every intention of keeping at the time but when it comes to cashing in, suddenly the promise loses all value.
— Mercy Cortez, Jethro's Journey
Lack of wisdom does not make a fool. A fool, in the truest sense, is the man who regards his own misfortunes or those of others as a source of doubt or criticism of the infinite mercy of the Gohonzon.-Josei Toda
— Daisaku Ikeda, Human Revolution- Volume 2
Out of the darkness, out of the night,May I find joy and all that is right:Open my eyes, so I'll see the lightThat comes when we have spiritual sight.~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Infinite Spirit, Abide With Me" (1940's)
— Gertrude Tooley Buckingham
It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.
— Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After
Only your faith can make your fears go away.
— Farshad Asl
To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
She shared how she had fi nally found God, not in the back of a church with hands held in prayer, but in the back of a police car with hands held in cuffs.
— Michael Chrobak, Foundations of Faith
The deeper the feelings of unworthiness dug into his heart, the darker the room became. It spread from the outside in, growing darker and moreominous with each new thought. He feared it would swallow him whole.
— Michael Chrobak, Foundations of Faith
As he walked, he felt the darkness behind him, following him. He swore he heard it whisper, “Run!
— Michael Chrobak, Foundations of Faith
God is my happy place
— Izey Victoria Odiase
Religion means life. Religion means true service in love to man and God. Religion means what ought to be understood within the confines of the laws of God. Religion means discipline. Religion means uplifting the falling. Religion means caring for they that suffer in latent and understanding why Christ came to die for us. Religion means development and expansion within the scope of the laws of God that safeguards life and protects the creations of the Creator. Religion means understanding what ought to be understood. Religion means understanding trials and why trials come our way, the tenacity to endure to the end and the rightful use of comfort to please God. Religion never means destroying lives. If we understand religion well, we shall know that religion means true love without bitterness. If we understand religion well, we shall know that religion means humility and a true submissive to the will of God. . If we understand religion well, we shall know that religion simply means dos and don’ts according to the scope, purpose and the will of God for our lives and not according to our own convictions and how we think things should be. Excessive religiosity is the root cause of contentions in religion.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Credinta, oricat de pasionata, de pura, de arzatoare, nu spune absolut nimic despre realitatea existentei lui Dumnezeu
— Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
Have faith, because life changes fast, I've learned that much.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
The rather difficult antagonists towards the Church consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most part lack an understanding of the Spirit.
— Criss Jami
My fear drives me. My faith directs me. I am an entrepreneur.
— Farshad Asl
Religion was at it's best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith, rather than living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's a great mystery.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs