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The moment the religious population of the world begins to see the prophets what they really were - mortal teachers of the mortal world, a great portion of the world's religious conflicts shall vanish into thin air.
— Abhijit Naskar
Please God, when I open my eyes, make this nightmare disappear.
— Catherine Jane Fisher, I am Catherine Jane: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Justice
The sun was up, the neighborhood waking. I wiped my face clean with the back of my sleeve, the warming air soft on my wet cheeks. A prayer welled up within me, a new kind of prayer. I was done begging God to forgive me for being too bitter, too needy, too egotistical, too tired. Repenting one day for being too much, the next for not being enough.Now I clearly understood my real offence against heaven: the stubborn refusal that every failing that I had—from the first—had been forgiven.
— Bethany Pierce, Amy Inspired
Arise and be all that you dreamed
— Lacey Sturm, The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living
The highest does not stand without the lowest.
— Thomas à Kempis
I saw that, although they were at the mercy of the sweltering heat, or the pains of aging or poverty, they could tolerate these because their faith gave them the hope of being united in spirit with a supernatural presence. I still denied that presence. My denial, I was realizing, was my armor; it allowed me to deflect a barrage of difficult questions. But it didn't answer those questions. It protected me from charlatans, yes, but it didn't fill my emptiness or give me direction. Doubt served a purpose, but it also prevented me from trusting anyone or anything. Without trust, how could I ever be happy?
— Visakha Dasi, Five Years, Eleven Months and a Lifetime of Unexpected Love: A Memoir
A daily conviction that Jesus Christ is alive draws our hearts closer to Him to believe that He is alive to work in our lives!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love isn't love until someone makes a mistake.
— Dr. Sean McMillan
Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process.
— Germany Kent
The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.
— Kate McGahan
But the more you make the choice to live above your feelings, to trust God instead of what you may feel like doing, the stronger your faith becomes. It’s not about being perfect. We will always been on a journey of growing closer to God.
— Tim Tebow, Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms
What do you see when you look in the mirror? I hope it goes beyond beauty. I hope what you see is that person who's worth it and deserves nothing less than the best, I hope that you see beyond the pain, I hope that you see the glory ahead of you, I hope that you see the strong woman who doesn't break to fail, but breaks to stand and I hope that you'll always remember that you need to love the person in the mirror first to make a change
— Temitayo Olami
Failure is falling up!
— Dr. Sean McMillan
I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man
— Rabindranath Tagore
Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.
— Kamand Kojouri
What do you see when you look in the mirror? I hope it goes beyond beauty. I hope what you see is that person who's worth it and deserves nothing less than the best, I hope that you see beyond the pain, I hope that you see the glory ahead of you, I hope that you see the strong woman who doesn't break to fail, but breaks to stand the tallest and I hope that you'll always remember that you need to love the person in the mirror first to make a change
— Temitayo Olami
The first thing I fell in love with about Orthodoxy was that my opinions are irrelevant, which is a sign of the preservation of Truth. I wanted a sound and stable faith, one that was maintained and preserved, not one that was changed and influenced by the tastes and opinions of sinners like me.
— Atom Tate
Wasted tries, The many whys, Is it the soul of Compromise? Lows and highs, Believing in lies, In life we have to improvise. Frustration and cries, The last leg of sighs, You are the dreamer in disguise! To the guilt say goodbyes, Open your eyes, Your soul - I do so recognize.
— Julieanne O'Connor
It is very difficult for those always in the spotlight who have constant pressure on them where there is however but a tiny window of freedom if your fortunate enough not to dream." -Julian Quintero
— Julian Quintero
What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect.
— Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
All the couples therapy and communication seminars in the world won't save you if you aren't prepared to close your eyes and hug the mainmast through a storm.
— Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Facts are relative to the knowledge man possesses at the present time. Truth however, is absolute and transcends the present, past, and future times. The relationship between Truth and Facts is that facts are not always the Truth, but Truth is always a Fact.
— Atom Tate
Having faith does not mean you should be idle and expecting manna to fall from above. You must get up and do something!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
God promised to bless the works of our hands. If you do not work, what is God going to bless you for?
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Sometimes when the world goes dark, and everyone turns their backs on you, just look to the sky to see the light, and follow the stars to paradise
— Timothy Norr
It isn't a matter of fitting in but rather staying in because some people just don't.
— Julian Quintero
I always knew I was born to do great things. I just didn't know I wouldn't be able to see where I was going.
— Julian Quintero
Any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean nothing by calling Him good; for to say 'God is good', while asserting that His goodness is wholly other than ours, is really only to say 'God is we know not what'. And an utterly unknown quality in God cannot give us moral grounds for loving or obeying Him. If He is not (in our sense) 'good' we shall obey, if at all, only through fear - and should be equally ready to obey omnipotent Fiend. The doctrine of Total Depravity - when the consequence is drawn that, since we are totally depraved, our idea of good is worth simply nothing - may thus turn Christianity into a form of devil-worship.- The Problem of Pain, pp. 28 - 29
— C.S. Lewis
When God holds the Crayons you can expect a masterpiece.
— Toni Sorenson
It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Perfection is just an opinion, but the only way anyone will ever reach perfection is through one 'man' who is Jesus Christ. Many have come against him and have passive aggressively felt tall in his imperfections but will forever fall short of his eternal glory. To compare oneself to our God who has given us all life, opportunity, and free will and to use it to gloat over him is a huge mistake that will be paid maybe not in the current life but most definitely in the eternal life. It is much simpler to live up to his standard than to try and forge our own. We are forever changing and yet he has always remained the same.
— Julian Quintero
Every living thing and every situation, is in divine order! Believe, and have faith that everything is where it is at, and should be! Everything happens for our highest good!
— Angie karan
We need to go first because we cannot live without your love and care. If we lived longer than you, we would not and could not survive. It’s supposed to be this way. We also need to cross the Rainbow Bridge before you do so that we can be on the other side to greet you when you get there. We wait at home for you here and we wait at Home for you there. It’s just the way it is.
— Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with My Master
With God, you are stronger than your struggles and more fierce than your fears. God provides comfort and strength to those who trust in Him. Be encouraged, keep standing, and know that everything's going to be alright.
— Germany Kent
Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way.
— Germany Kent
Have the courage to rise from the challenges of life like a phoenix from the flames or you'll get lost in the ashes of despair, pain, and regret.
— Nanette Mathews
I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it.
— Michael Chabon, Moonglow
Fight your battles through prayer,And win your battles through faith.
— Luffina Lourduraj
Every religion has extremists, and extremists have more in common with each other than they do with the common people of their faith.
— Orli Matlow
Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.
— Garon Whited, Knightfall: Book Four of the Nightlord series
Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.
— Eric Van Lustbader, First Daughter
If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.
— Eric Van Lustbader, First Daughter
I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors....Jesus could have hung out in the high-end religious scene of his day, but instead he scoffed at all that, choosing instead to laugh at the powerful, befriend whores, kiss sinners, and eat with all the wrong people. He spent his time with people for whom life was not easy. And there, amid those who were suffering, he was the embodiment of perfect love.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love."So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.
— Susan Howatch, The High Flyer
I had faith in the mountains. Where they would take me to, I barely knew but I knew that the steps made weren't backward, but forward. I didn't climb mountains; I befriended them.
— Kevin Keenoo
Believe in yourself, always.
— Sujish Kandampully
Let us not grow tired of doing good for in due time we shall reap our harvest if we do not give up. (from the Bible Galatians6:9)
— Annoymous, Bilingual New Testament English German
I want to reach the top with it all--business, family and faith!
— Joy Harris
For as long as we are led by belief, we can never know anything for certain. It is not enough to believe or to have faith, we must know beyond all doubt. For that, we have no other option, but to search, question and investigate! There is no shame in not having found God, Brahman or the Great Spirit, but it is gravely ignorant to dismiss their existence on hearsay.
— Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One
To walk in faith is to confess that we do not know what awaits us, and the faith I have embraced does not promise an easy road.
— Russ Ramsey, Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
There's a reason why people find each other, and this reason is found in their emotional motives before they meet. They both attracted one another by their needs, desires and dreams. And so, only their fears, ignorance and misused freewill can set them apart before they have a chance to discover that they were blessed and not condemned to one another. This truth is asleep in their heart, waiting to be unlocked with faith, a leap into the unknown, kind words and gestures that unmask their soul.
— Robin Sacredfire
You can walk with a clear conscience knowing that this life is all that you believe you have. Although there is always a point in your life that you will see what has been let go. I just hope when that day comes for us all, you wake up to what is really unknown.
— Julian Quintero
Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.
— Germany Kent
... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Father God, we thank you for your grace and your mercy, for allowing us to be together under your covenant and God we thank you for the revelations and for the breakthroughs; for your direction and for your healing. We thank you God for the opportunity to just be a vessel for your kingdom. God we trust you, we love you, we honor you, and all glory is yours. Amen
— Germany Kent
Sometimes, getting comfortable with the circumstance is the only preparation you need to deal with it.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.
— Germany Kent
Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Krishna Cancer
I am nothing but a ripped fabric stitched together by God's grace.
— J.A. ANUM
Sometimes things aren't very clear, that's all. Things look like they're going against us, and though it always turns out fine in the end, and we can always look back and say oh of course it had to happen that way, otherwise so-and-so wouldn't have happened--still while it's happening, in my heart I keep getting this terrible fear, this empty place, and it's very hard at such times really to believe in a Plan with a shape bigger than I can see...
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Sometimes all thats left is faith.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Be still and know that I am God!
— Bible, Bible
The key to the Almighty's favor is to hold on with firm belief that the promises of God's Word are true.
— Garth Coonce
It's unlimited what we can do through Christ.
— Garth Coonce
The giver is more than the gift; God is more than the blessing. And our being kept waiting on Him is the only way for our learning to find our life and joy in Himself. Oh, if God’s children only knew what a glorious God they have, and what a privilege it is to be linked in fellowship with Him, then they would rejoice in Him! Even when He keeps them waiting, they will learn to understand better than ever. ”Therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you.” His waiting will be the highest proof of His graciousness.
— Andrew Murray, Waiting On God
Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life are the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.
— Dionna L. Hayden
Do not pay attention to those who are trying to stop or hinder you
— Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes when the world goes dark, and everyone turns their backs on you, just look the sky to see light, and follow the stars to paradise
— Timothy Norr
We came from different backgrounds; he was white from privileged class in America, and I black from a village in Africa, but he was kind generous, and he reached out to this young poor black boy. He changed the odds against me. Our friendship rose above race.
— FRIENDSHIP: A True Story of Adventure, Goodwill, and Endurance.
I understand (finally) that God does not REACT to prayers or petitions. He has ACTED. It is already done.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
God goes ahead of a man who walks by faith, that is the beauty of faith
— Sunday Adelaja
For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.
— Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith
The most sensitive period of their developmental age, when the kids are supposed to be taught to question everything and nourish their reasoning skills, they are taught that God created the world in seven days – that the human race did not evolve from apes through millions of years, rather it came from the amorous congress between two God-made humans, named Adam and Eve. And if you ask why? The answers of the uneducated primordial teachers would be that the scriptures say so. And now if you ask, can’t the scriptures be wrong – do I have to take these stories literally? They would lash out with rage and shout at you – how dare you question the scriptures! Every single word in it is true. There is no greater truth than the truth of these sacred texts.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
When you know your purpose in life, then by faith you know God will enable you to do it
— Sunday Adelaja
The tiny sculptures revelled in the demotion of their celestial peers soaking up the limelight of human attention after an eon of slumber. Woken from their torpor by the one thing that all art desires
—  an audience.
Have faith in the light you carry.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Faith is believing in something you cannot prove for certain.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
It is only through faith that you will receive the patience, obedience, and humility to be submissive
— Sunday Adelaja
By faith you can work miracles and perform heroic deeds
— Sunday Adelaja
By faith we will become strong and withstand the spiritual battle warring against us
— Sunday Adelaja
Faith is a necessary prerequisite for a courageous act
— Sunday Adelaja
Obedience and submission requires faith
— Sunday Adelaja
There is a special joy connected to your faith
— Sunday Adelaja
You move gropingly, relying on your faith and act by your intuition
— Sunday Adelaja
Only the people who are working the victory by faith will experience the joy of harvest
— Sunday Adelaja
Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.
— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.
— Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith
The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.
— Mīrābāī, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems
[The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a matter of intellectual belief, but a matter of connecting experientially and substantively with the person of Truth, Jesus.
— Karla Perry, Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability
The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.
— Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars
Oh yes! I have couple-goals too. I love to couple myself with- Books, Coffee and Mountains.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
To love anyone is to risk.
— Stephanie Morrill, The Lost Girl of Astor Street
She walks,on the streets,with a face that,doesn't belong.It smiles more than,many put together,whole day long.Her heart misfit,a little chipped.And she likes to,call it once broken,but now stitched.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, life must have continuity, and this your life lacks. You occupy yourself with your studies, that is true, you are even industrious. But it is only for your own sake and is done with as little teleology as possible. Otherwise you are unoccupied; like those workers in the Gospel, you stand idle in the marketplace (Matthew 20:3). You stick your hands in your pockets and observe life. Then you rest in despair, nothing occupies you, you don’t step aside for anything: “if someone were to throw a tile down from the roof I wouldn’t get out of the way.” You are like someone dying, you die daily, not in the profound, serious sense in which one usually takes that word, but life has lost its reality and “you always reckon your lifetime from one day’s notice to quit to the next”. You let everything pass you by, it makes no impression, but then suddenly something comes which grips you, an idea, a situation, a smile from a young girl, and then you are “in touch”; for just as on some occasions you are not in touch, so at others you are in touch and of service in every way. Wherever something is going on you are “in touch”. You conduct your life as it is your custom to behave in a crowd, you “work your way into the thickest of it, trying if possible to be forced up above the others so as to be able to lie on top of them”; if you manage to get up there you “make yourself as comfortable as possible”, and this is also the way you let yourself be carried along through life. But when the crowd disperses, when the event is over, you stand once more at the street corner and look at the world. A dying person possesses, as you know, a supernatural energy, and so too with you. If there is an idea to be thought through, a work to be read through, a plan to be carried out, a little adventure to be experienced - yes, a hat to be bought, you take hold of the matter with an immense energy. According to circumstance, you work on untiringly for a day, for a month; you are happy in the assurance that you still have the same abundance of strength as before, you take no rest, “no Satan can keep up with you”. If you work together with others, you work them into the ground. But then when the month or, what you always consider the maximum, the six months have gone, you break off and say, “and that’s the end of the story”. You retire and leave it all to the other party, or if you have been working alone you talk to no one about what you were doing. You then pretend to yourself and others that you have lost the desire and flatter yourself with the vain thought that you could have kept working with the same intensity if that is what you desired. But that is an immense deception. You would have succeeded in finishing it, as most others, if you had patiently willed it so, but you would have found out at the same time that it needs a kind of perseverance quite different from yours.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Someone once said to me, 'There are so many religions in the world. They can't all be right.' And my reply was, 'Well, they can't all be wrong either.' All religions in the world today share more commonalities than differences, yet language blinds many from seeing these truths. Some people will tell me that what I write about is straight from their holy book, but the truth is that the main principles found in all holy books were already engraved in all our hearts. If you think common sense, the golden rule and knowing right from wrong are exclusive only to your faith, then you need to open yourself up to the rest of the world's religions.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Why trade definite for a maybe?
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Part of her had hoped he would say something like, "I want you, Katie. You belong to me now. I'll take care of you." He didn't say that. But his answer was the best one, really. "You belong to Christ, Katie.
— Robin Jones Gunn, Peculiar Treasures
Words, and faith, will only take you as far as your actions allow.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.
— Stewart Stafford
Infinite? Am I forgetting anyone?" Your Creator. Kien almost smiled. True. All things considered, he'd been blessed far more than he deserved. "What, then, should I write to You, my Creator?" He hardly expected an answer, but it came at once, swathing him in comfort. Write your love for Me on your heart, where My Spirit finds it always.
— R.J. Larson, King
If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him.
— Timothy J. Keller, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
You made a writer keep faith in his pen.
— Avijeet Das
It is not you that is flawed or broken, it is the space in your heart yet to be filled, that has been given to guilt that takes away the strength you needed to overcome the trials ahead of you. That is not evil… it’s mortal. And the real us, is born in a shell of mortality like a bird, and just like that bird, once that shell is broken away, we will spread our wings and fly away, leaving far behind shards of triumphed and discarded insecurities.
— Michael Brent Jones, A Hole in Heaven's Gate
Disbelief in GOD is like living in the city and denying the people who have been to the country and tell you about it.
— Chuck Bridges
In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Krishna Cancer
In the body there are two creatures, and they are both in enmity with each other. For one to do anything, the other has to be subjected to it. One has a mind and the other only has an appetite. The more the mind gets, the more it is satisfied, but the more the appetite gets, the more its hunger grows; its appetite is for imaginary things, it dreams that it is eating, but when it wake, which it dreads to do, it is empty and pangs.
— Michael Brent Jones, Dinner Party
Failure should be archived in head, not heart.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness of many practitioners. People who are indoctrinated and mistake implanted obsession for faith, are themselves destroyers of the very thing which they imagine themselves called upon to try to protect.In fact, of course, they have no such call: and their capacity to protect something which is other than their imaginings makes for a comical situation.
— Idries Shah
We are the masters of our own destinies, and only we can allow our hearts to be filled, and enable our souls to be happy. No amount of power or mercy can change a heart from empty to whole, or change the end of a will from everlasting sadness to eternal joy.
— Michael Brent Jones, Dinner Party
Belief attracts something
—  faith makes things happen!
His faith was like the radar of a bat, it took him through the darkness that surrounded him. It would guide him through everything that evil would throw at him. When his body gave up, God’s powers lifted him up and kept his heart thumping.
— Mark A. Cooper, The Edelweiss Express
Lucas couldn’t have imagined that he would have ever felt so alone. No family, no friends. Even his own village had turned against him. He peered into the icy water; it looked like it was about to freeze over. Maybe I should drown myself before I freeze to death? he pondered. Was there no one to help? He instinctively bowed his head and prayed. A warm feeling engulfed his battered body. “I’m not alone, I will never be alone. God is with me,” he blubbered.
— Mark A. Cooper, The Edelweiss Express
Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.
— Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.
— Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes,' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?''By Our Lord... on the altar.
— Louis de Wohl
Child, [death] is with us always,” said Cadfael, patient beside him. “Last summer ninety-five men died here in the town, none of whom had done murder. For choosing the wrong side, they died. It falls upon blameless women in war, even in peace at the hands of evil men. It falls upon children who never did harm to any, upon old men, who in their lives have done good to many, and yet are brutally and senselessly slain. Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.” “Such justice as we see is also but a broken shred. But it is our duty to preserve what we may, and fit together such fragments as we find, and take the rest on trust.
— Ellis Peters, St. Peter's Fair
Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when it's there.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.
— Walter Wink
Faith is the ability to endure.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
The journey to faith is the most marvelous and sobering of all journeys, for the transformation of one’s heart transforms the questions one asks, the values one holds, the world one perceives, and the life one lives.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Religious faith is by nature the most fundamental set of beliefs that one can have. It is how a believer views the world, and is how the believer judges himself as well as the other people, things, and events in that world. It colors everything about them. It is for this reason that people who adopt a faith out of convenience appear so phony, and why it is simply not possible for an individual to have a "religion d'jour.
— Mike Klepper
Faith is about what we know, not what we feel. Yet, what we know will influence and direct what we feel. A strong knowledge of God will yield feelings of confidence in Him.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
You do not get to choose the events that come your way nor the sorrows that interrupt your life. They will likely be a surprise to you, catching you off quard and unprepared. You may hold your head in your hands and lament your weak condition and wonder what you ought to do. To suffer, that is common to all. To suffer and still keep your composure, your faith and your smile, that is remarkable. Pain will change you more profoundly than success or good fortune. Suffering shapes your perception of life, your values and priorities, and your goals and dreams. Your pain is changing you,
— David Crosby
When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.
— Mark Batterson
Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Anger is essential if one is to survive this world. It’s not just a degenerate emotion that destroys everything in its path. If it were so completely destructive, why would people of every religion in the world imbue God with it? “Don’t do that! Allah will get angry,” my aunts used to say. People use it with children all the time. Be good and avoid the wrath of those with the capacity to strike you down in an instant. Your entire life may be governed by this simple principle — Be good to avoid angering those who have more power than you.
— Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires
Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
I guess we’re supposed to have faith.”“I never really took you for the faith-having kind,” Quentin said.“I didn’t either. But it’s worked out so far. We’ve got five of the seven keys. You can’t argue with results.”“You can’t,” Quentin said, “but that’s actually not the same thing as having faith.”“Why do you always try to ruin everything?”“I’m not ruining it. I just want to understand it.”“If you had faith you wouldn’t have to understand.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician King
The truth is I don’t know what happens to the spirits of the dead when they leave this world. Priests may claim to, even Truthseeker may claim to. However nobody truly knows. All Truthseeker truly knows is that Ishar, Kirfell, Orion and Avanti are lies. He has no proof of an alternative. I don’t know. There may be nothing beyond this dark reality we live in, but that doesn’t feel right to me. We love, we hate, we fight, we strive... People’s lives seem too complex and important to be simply extinguished like a candle.’~Vexis ZaelwarshDeathsworn Arc 5: The Temple of the Mad God
— Martyn Stanley
doubt and faith do not exist in the same person at the same time
— Joseph Smith
It is not enough that you look for Him.You must hunt for God each and every dayas if your life depends on it.Because it does.
— Kamand Kojouri
The Bible is a love story. Time and time again it illustrates how much God loves the world in spite of its sinful disobedience...The last book of the Bible, the Revelation of St John the Divine, creates a beautiful and yet terrifying picture of those last days when God will reveal Himself in judgment and in grace to all creation.
— Jerry Falwell, Strength For The Journey: An Autobiography
It is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.
— Kamand Kojouri
The key to liberation resides within our very own hands and heart.
— Julie R. Schelling, Invitation to Believe: Establishing Faith in the Universal Power
As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves.We then spend our lives looking for Himwhen all along, He has been concealed behind the veil of 'I'.
— Kamand Kojouri
El infierno es saber que tenías tan poca fe en mi amor que estabas dispuesta a condenarme a la agonía de por vida.
— Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic
Numbers 12: 6 - 8When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord.So, unless you're Moses, this verse makes it obvious that God will not always speak clearly. Often he speaks softly and in riddles. He will reveal something supernaturally to us, but it's always something we need to pay close attention to. We usually need to then carefully interpret and apply what we hear. We are convinced that God's motivation behind this - as with all he does - is to draw us into relationship.
— Mike Pilavachi, Everyday Supernatural: Living a Spirit-Led Life without Being Weird
This world isn't a battlefield. Someday you will realise how your success depends on a bunch of other people and that day you will be wiser. You will know how connected we all are. Either we all make it or none of us does.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)
— Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story, they take time, effort, revisions.
— Daisy Hernandez, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man’s triumph over nature.
— Richard W. Kelly, Testament
The answer to most prayers is no.
— Alex George, Setting Free the Kites
Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.
— Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
Yes, of course. If you love anyone, you cannot help but share his suffering. If we love our Lord, not just admire him or fear him or want things from him, we must recognize his feelings; he must be in anguish over our sins. We must understand this anguish. The Lord suffers with us. He suffers like us. It is a consolation to know this. To know that we are not in fact alone in our suffering.
— Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
Clouds are on top for a reason. They float so high because they refuse to carry any burden!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
Money gives you options,Hard work gives you success, Healthy relationships give you a long life, But faith gives you everything!
— Farshad Asl
GOD is like a streetlight. He keeps observing you silently when it is light and showers you with light when you are in darkness!
— Uma Shanker
God always sends an angelto soften the sting of the devil.
— Sarah Strohmeyer, The Cinderella Pact
If you don’t have the faith in principles and you don’t believe in the absolutism of the truth then you won’t be able achieve anything in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Forget the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Granth Sahib, and all the scriptures in the world. None of them will show you the Great Eternal Truth. None of them will show you the Kingdom of God, for the real Kingdom of the Ultimate Truth is inside your mind. It was born in you when you were born. And it will cease to exist when you die. Your mind is not merely the vehicle of God, rather it is the life-force that keeps God alive. Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
Your mind is not merely the vehicle of God, rather it is the life-force that keeps God alive. Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.
— Mother Teresa
We are all constantly being refined by fire and smoothed over by grace.
— Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace
In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
Just hold on to your faith and always be willing to put in the hard work on your own.
— Cliff Hannold
If asked, ‘Do you believe in ghosts or the supernatural?’, I can only answer somewhat as follows. I do believe in another world which penetrates this, and that, as Milton so aptly puts it, ‘Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth/Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep’, I deplore the false Cartesian split as a dreadful blow to the human mind. To me, the world of imagination, which works by means of analogy, is as real, in its own particular way, as the everyday external world. To me, the myths are vital truths, the gods and goddesses still live, on that mighty archetypal plane which lies beyond our little selves and yet within our being, too. Now this may appear illogical, a tangled web of contradictions. To believe in every spiritual truth, in all religions and all creeds, to revere a single God and the many? This may disturb the theologian, but not the Mystic. For, to the mystical turn of mind, the One may become the Many, the Many One. Spiritual and poetic truth—the transcendental vision, that is—encompasses both reason and ethics, yet soars above them.
— Harvey Peter Sucksmith, Those Whom the Old Gods Love
I think one of the things that has always stopped me from truly leaning into my fears is that I'm not always sure whether my dreams line up well with God's plan for my life. I might be willing to take a leap of faith if I was sure that God wanted me to leap.
— Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. She wished she could see Laila again, wished to hear the clamour of her laugh, to sit with her once more for a pot of chai and left over halwa under a starlit sky. She mourned that she would never see Aziza grow up, would not see the beautiful young woman that she would one day become, would not get to paint her hands with henna and toss noqul candy at her wedding. She would never play with Aziza's children. She would have liked that very much, to be old and play with Aziza's children.Near the goalpost, the man behind her asked her to stop. Mariam did. Through the crisscrossing grid of the burqa, she saw his shadow arms lift his shadow Kalashnikov. Mariam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad,Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings. Mariam's final thoughts were a few words from the Koran, which she muttered under her breath.He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day and makes the day overtake the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term; now surely He is the Mighty, the Great Forgiver."Kneel," the Talib saidO my Lord! Forgive and have mercy, for you are the best of the merciful ones."Kneel here, hamshira and look down."One last time, Mariam did as she was told.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society
— Sunday Adelaja
Dreams are like inserting new doors! Dedication like your door lock , Passion like your bolts and Faith like your keys! Hold on tight to your dreams ! Remember one day all your hard work will pay off in ways you never imagined." - Gavhi Theron.P
— Gavhi Theron
Our desires, dreams and hopes, open portals. These portals manifest in our conscience and 5 senses, in the form of decisions related to the material world - one person, a job, an opportunity. Now, at the exact same time, or maybe even slightly before in time, we get the exact opposite, the temptation, the illusion and deception. And when we are about to make a decision, as if by magic, the two things come stronger to us, as if pushing us into a duality that makes it hard to decide. Now, this brings me to another super interesting fact. Most people assume that they have freewill, and that choices are hard to made, and that life is full of dualities. And I've learned that this is just a great deception related to our planet, which as human beings, we must transcend. And what I'm really saying here, is that the duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice.
— Robin Sacredfire
...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some senseless tragedy. An atheist might be no less staggered by such an event, but nonbelievers often experienced a kind of calm acceptance: shit happens, and this particular shit happened to them. It could be more difficult for a person of faith to get to his feet precisely because he had to reconcile God's love and care with the stupid, brutal fact that something irreversibly terrible had happened.
— Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.
— Ricky Gervais
If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.
— DaShanne Stokes
So endeth the story of the winning of Excalibur, and may God give unto you in your life, that you may have His truth to aid you, like a shining sword, for to overcome your enemies; and may He give you Faith (for Faith containeth Truth as a scabbard containeth its sword), and may that Faith heal all your wounds of sorrow as the sheath of Excalibur healed all the wounds of him who wore that excellent weapon. For with Truth and Faith girded upon you, you shall be as well able to fight all your battles as did that noble hero of old, whom men called King Arthur.
— Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.
— Umberto Eco, Numero zero
We see that every victory in our life depends on our faith
— Sunday Adelaja