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When faith simplifies things that need to remain complex, instead of giving us strength to live with complexity, when it gives us answers where none exist, instead of helping us appreciate the sacredness of living with questions, when it offers certainty when there needs to be doubt, and when it tells us that we have arrived when we should be searching-then there is a problem with that faith.
— Brad Hirschfield
Christians must set their mind on the Saviour, Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is a strong fortress.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The living souls have the breath of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Men behaves according to their beliefs.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
History has taught us that when understanding and tolerance are fostered, people of different faiths can live together in harmony. Regrettably, history has also taught us the opposite, that such states of equilibrium can quickly degenerate and succumb to rhetoric of anger and fear, sometimes leading to violence and even war. A balance of mutual respect and tolerance needs to be maintained through good works. Interrelations need continual nurturing.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Experifaith: At the Heart of Every Religion; An Experiential Approach to Individual Spirituality and Improved Interfaith Relations
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
— Frank Buchman
You cling on to the truth
—  no one in the world can shake your faith and devotion.
Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!
— Dada Bhagwan
Never let fear control you, let faith take control.
— Gift Gugu Mona
True peace cannot be found in a ‘place’. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any ‘place’.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Intellectuals cannot find the bottom (base) of the faith. It is not possible to do both together, to remain afloat and (also) measure the ocean depth at the same time.
— Dada Bhagwan
When can one’s soul acknowledge (accept)? When one has an ‘open mind’. This [Akram Vignan] is not something one has to keep faith in. Faith should arise automatically. Regardless of whether I rebuke or scold you, even then faith should come within you.
— Dada Bhagwan
When you put faith in that which you know, it is called faith (shraddha). When you put faith in what you don’t know; that is called ignorance-based faith [agnan- shraddha].
— Dada Bhagwan
A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s house began to flood, and someone came to his door offering a ride to higher ground. The man declined, saying, 'God will take care of me.' A few hours later, as the waters engulfed the first floor of the man’s home, a boat passed by, and the captain offered to take the man to safety. The man declined, saying, 'God will take care of me.' A few hours after that, as the man waited on his roof—his entire home flooded—a helicopter flew by, and the pilot offered transportation to dry land. Again the man declined, telling the pilot that God would care for him. Soon thereafter, the waters overcame the man, and as he stood before God in heaven, he protested his fate: 'You promised that you’d help me so long as I was faithful.' God replied, 'I sent you a car, a boat, and a helicopter. Your death is your own fault.' God helps those who help themselves.
— J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.
— Imran Bughio
If you say something as if it were, that isn't, is it considered a lie, or speaking it into existence?
— N'Zuri Za Austin
God himself teaches the way to heaven.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be more concerned about your life's impact on the lives of others than your image.
— Felicia Brookins, Sister Nadeen's Ways
Faith is a focus on God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.
— John Bevere, The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense
Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.
— John Bevere, The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense
You will find the lies in the light and truth in the dark
— Treyco
Faith is not to understand, but to feel!
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Faith is a kind of spiritual magnet that you polarize.
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
But I've noticed, too, that prayer for some other people is less like a spare tire and more like a road map. It is not something tucked away in small compartment and rarely used. It is used constantly. These people understand how necessary a road map is if they are to ever get where they want to go. For them, prayer isn't just for emergency use, but it guides them through the intricacies of life.
— Steve Goodier
What if we who follow Jesus worked as one unit? What if we put aside the slight doctrinal differences, the denominational/movement mentality? What if we saw it as it truly will be one day - people of every tribe, kindred, tongue and nation united in one common cause! What if we all stood as one powerful resounding force against all oppression and wickedness and for all righteousness, peace and love. What if we were a city on a hill, a light that cannot be hidden. What if....what if?
— David  Holdsworth
Jesus flips the tables.A poor man spends day and night praying in front of a golden statue. He begs that his family be freed of poverty. The priest says to him to pay his tithe on the way out.Jesus flips the tables.A poor man goes to a place he calls home. He invites his neighbours, friends and family. He opens the good book and prays direct to God.Jesus flips the tables.
— David  Holdsworth
Sometimes we are fixed on an image of Christ in a stable born, but he is not there anymore. Sometimes we are fixed on an image of Christ on a cross dying, but he is not there anymore. Sometimes we are fixed on an image of Christ at an empty tomb, but he is not there anymore. He has ascended and is seated at the right hand of God and is coming again! All parts of the story are important, but this final part is often over looked. Let's not get stuck in a spiritual moment, but make progress instead. Look to Him as He is.
— David  Holdsworth
The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people’s beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament
People are afraid of what exist in the dark and thats only truth
— Lil Treyco
Many preach that do this way, do that way, have faith, speak the truth, have patience. These are all results (effects). How can results be changed?
— Dada Bhagwan
Faith brings what was impossible yesterday into reality today and makes it perpetual tomorrow.
— Faithful Akpaloo
It's raining to hard to last long. Your hardship is too strong to last long. Hold on fast your faith.Be still.
— Faithful Akpaloo
Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.
— Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
FAITH in God is the only fortune, there is.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
David is called a man after God's heart. This can be a little confusing when you get into his story, because he's guilty of adultery and murder and cover-up. He's a train wreck as a husband, and he's worse as a dad. But his heart belongs to God. His whole life is immersed in the presence and story of God. What lights him up is to serve God and love God, and when he mess up—and he does—he repents and wants to get right with God again.
— John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?
Prayer without faith is as futile as a body without breathe.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
The prayer of faith is a prayer of trust. The very essence of faith is trust.
— R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life
The day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father's house.
— R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life
Faith is a fortune.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God knows the end from the beginning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only wise God!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The heavenly Father is wise in heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believe in God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The boldness of being is to believe in God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is one thing to believe in God
—  it is quite another to believe God.
If you wish to know the truth, read the holy Scriptures.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is there any certainty like the Truth?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For what they make us feel. Like we belong."_ORS
— Ocean R Stark
I had to face my worst fears, to find the force of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in God is a full force of grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is a fire that burns in soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Prayer purifies the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Belief is not weakness. Faith is the greatest strength we can have.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
Precious to the Lord are the death of His saints."DEATH IS NOT FINAL.God has set eternity in the hearts of men. Why would you want there to be nothing at the end of life?DEATH IS A MYSTERY.Death is not a secret but a mystery. Solomon asked so long ago if animals will be in heaven. And how do people get there.NO ONE KNOWS WHEN THEY WILL DIE. We should then live everyday to God's glory. So make haste to be right with God.DEATH IS THE ULTIMATE LEVELER. Mourning makes people think about mortality. It helps reveal what is important in life more than a party ever could. The king and the pawn go back in the same box. Rich or poor - are we ready to meet God? Do we have faith in Him and His son whose very name is love? Without Him, without love what else matters? We need to love others and love God. The importance of this can become clear in mourning. Are you ready?WE TAKE NOTHING WITH US.Except that done in love for the glory of Jesus. Though these things won't save us, it is His merit alone that can do that, these things give an abundant entry into eternity. Solomon in the end hated what he couldn't take with him. He was the richest man on earth leading a vast empire, surrounded by wives and servants. Jesus asks what good would it do to gain the whole world and lose ones own soul? Therefore store up treasures in heaven.AFTER DEATH COMES JUDGEMENT.It is uncomfortable to think on, but needed. Will we be with Christ on that day or lost in sin? Even if you are a follower of Jesus consider that if we do the things Jesus told us in secret and it comes out it will be nice, but the bad stuff we shouldn't do that we did anyway coming out would be unpleasant. Therefore walk in the light as He is in the light. Shine like the stars in the heavens. Love Him who first loved us."For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 KJV(Refs: Eccl 2:18, Eccl 12:13, Ps 115, Eccl. 3:11, Eccl 3:21, Eccl 8:7,8, Eccl 7:2).
— David  Holdsworth
Feed your faith with the word of God..starve your doubts by remaining positive in a negative environment...when we operate in faith we are over-comers. Faith is God's method of changing the world,to overcome all obstacles
— Mlungisi Simelane
Faith with work yields fulfillment
— Sunday Adelaja
If you have faith in yourself you will never lick the dust of defeat in any ground
— Saad Khan
Betty realized that when it came to relationships with other human beings, she would always feel alone. And yet there was this place – this small special place inside of her – a place where quiet beauty was embraced, a place where memories became fantasies and where fantasies became memories. Like a pebble, Betty could lose herself within this place, this opulent ocean, and yet even if the water were to one day reject her too, even if it were to cast her back up onto its shores, she knew that she would catch the light of the sun again.
— Heather Babcock, Of Being Underground and Moving Backwards
Focus on faith in God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We must turn from worthless things towards faith in God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Man is but his belief.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Without private prayers and personal study of the Scriptures, how can we increase in faith and grow in the grace of our knowledge of Christ Jesus?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
CageIt's a tear i want to shed,For the weathered roses that once was red,Today it's a decision want to make,To move on in life ignoring the fate,It's the promises i want to break,Because its a nightmare and i want to awake,It is the poem that don't rhyme,I don't know how, but things changed with the tides of time,It's the memories i want to forget,Now i am tired, no more i can regret,I'm the one, who feels alone in the crowd,I want to cry, run and shout out loud,Please leave me alone, relieve me from the pain,I am empty now, there is nothing more you can regain,Look at me and deep into my eyes,You will find the love that never dies
— Ratish Edwards
This is the sinking womanwhose soul touched the ocean andcaused it to storm kisses.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves, Let's Go Dancing in the Light: A Collection of Poetry and Prose for Soul and Spirit
First, Christ took upon his own head the sins of those who have wronged us. Second, because of this, he stands between us and those whom we think have wronged us, asking us to realize that the atonement is sufficient for those sins and to therefore repent of our grudges and give up our enmity. And finally, if we forgive, the atonement fills us with what we have lacked and either washes away our pain, or sustains us in it.
— James L. Farrell
Sometimes I really can't express how much I feel, but I can tell for a fact that some past years have been a victorious rollercoaster ride with God in it. Some days colourful, some days black and white, some days faith bigger than a mustard seed, other days I'm filled with blind doubt about what tomorrow holds. But in all of this, I'm beautifully me and constantly running the race through the father's grace
— Temitayo Olami
Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, The Usurper: And Other Stories
If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When faced with challenges, if you can not CHANGE the situation, NEVER WORRY, replace worry with FAITH. If you can change the situation, makes steps in order to overcome. Always remember worrying does not solve your challenge, it only adds to it!
— Hopal Green
And now for me, faith is less of a brick edifice of belief and doctrine and right answers than it is a wide-open sky ringed with pine trees black against a cold sunset, an altar, a welcome, bread and wine, an unfathomably ferocious love, and a profound sense of my belovedness.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith
—  the latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice
To believe is to behold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The will to believe has given us our great saints. The will to doubt has given us our great scientists. The goal of the intelligent man is a character in which the will to believe of the saint and the will to doubt of the scientist meet and mingle.
— Glenn  Frank
Behold, behold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He would cry out, stretch his back in an arch, and his eyes would roll back in his head, and I was terrified that I would lose him before reaching the hospital. I kept crying out to God to save my boy. "Please, Lord! Please, Lord! Don't let him die!
— Helen Goldie, Nell of Whitemoss: You Are Never Alone
As time passed, I began to get depressed and cried a lot. It was not because of my pregnancy. Praise the Lord, I wasn't having any more morning sickness, and I remained in good health, but my emotions were taking a nosedive. In my present situation, I was so isolated, and so lonely, and when a woman is pregnant, she doesn't feel pretty any more. In fact, she often feels ugly and awkward.
— Helen Goldie, Nell of Whitemoss: You Are Never Alone
I had just prayed, Oh God, please help me! I want to serve you, but I don't know how. I don't know what to do? ------ "WRITE A BOOK!" I was in shock. So, I stood silent, in wonderment. I was surprised that I had received an answer to my prayer. I didn't really expect to hear from God. Why should I? I was nobody, only a little dot on the earth. Why should the Great God of the universe speak to me?
— Helen Goldie, Nell of Whitemoss: You Are Never Alone
Archie had exciting news for me one day, ---He had just been to Washington and The Baptist World Alliance wanted him to become their Baptist World Aid Secretary. --- What a challenge, what an opportunity, what a frightening, impossible job, I thought all at once. Then a still, small voice within me reminded me: "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Matt. 1926
— Helen Goldie, Nell of Whitemoss: You Are Never Alone
Ten thousand people were baptized in the Han river in Seoul, Korea. Imagine! 10,000 people giving their lives to Christ at one time! I will never forget it! ----I felt that the constant prayers of the Korean people had made the difference. I think we in the west should take prayer more seriously.
— Helen Goldie, Nell of Whitemoss: You Are Never Alone
Faith is when you choose to trust the Lord, even when there's a lot at stake.
— Gift Gugu Mona
I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a journey that lasted a long time: how to love a God who hurts you.
— Carol Lynn Pearson, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
Do not lose faith, it only lead to fear.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A true businessperson should also be a true humanist who understands that he stands to gain the most in a world that is stable for those he deals with, even if they do not fare as well as he does.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Disciples of Fortune
Son, it is bad for a man to be condemned by his children, more so by the sons he cherishes.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Disciples of Fortune
One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes — destroying everything that separates you from the Lover. Once you taste the fruit of this vine, you will be kicked out of the city of yourself. You will forget the world. You will forget yourself. I tell you: you will become a madman who wanders the streets looking for the Lover once you drink this Wine of Love.
— Kamand Kojouri
I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever you please.
— Chelsea Vanderbeek, Forget Me
Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.
— Kamand Kojouri
Women Uplifting One Another Through Faith.
— LaShonna Dyson
The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.
— Kamand Kojouri
Hold the flame of faith, it quench all doubt of darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am humbled by the grace of God.I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.Humbled by others' kindness.Humbled by life.I drop down to my knees and give thanks.
— Kamand Kojouri
Faith is a holy flame.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is like the freshness of dewdrops.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The flame is faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Blind faith is not real religion my friend.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Holy fear is to shun evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Secure tomorrow today by sowing good seeds today and by watering them with faith and love to others.
— Enock Maregesi
If you want to find God, then all you need to do is love.
— Kamand Kojouri
Tell your testimony.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
If you have ever sin, you will appreciate the grace of salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How can we grow in faith without hearing the word of God?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The fountain of living water never runs dry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith define the fate of man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faithfulness is a fortress.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Build your self in the Holy Faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believe in God is the boldness of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The fear of the crowd then came to Will, with the taste of a copper penny placed on his tongue; and it was not the fear that they were under divine judgement, but that they were not, and could never be.
— Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent
For now, I look to God, for I know He will respond to my questions. For I believe, in the deepest part of my heart, that He shall truly bring us into a frame of mind where we may hear His greatest responses . . . Perhaps not the final answers, but at the very least, the next response we need.
— Alexandra Silber, After Anatevka: A Novel Inspired by Fiddler on the Roof
Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Vita ya Shetani na Mungu inatuathiri zaidi sisi wanadamu – na hapo baadaye itamuathiri Shetani pia. Vita hii haiwezi kuisha hadi siku ya mwisho, Yesu Kristo atakaporudi kuwachukua wateule wake. Pambana kwa njia ya maombi hadi siku ya mwisho kwa sababu adui tunayepambana naye hana muda wa kupumzika. Pambana kujiombea na kuwaombea wengine waliohai, na hata wale ambao bado hawajazaliwa, kabla mafuta ya dunia hii hayajalipuka. Usiishi kama adui wa msalaba wa Yesu Kristo, badala yake, ishi kama rafiki wa msalaba wa Yesu Kristo. Kuishi kama rafiki wa msalaba wa Yesu Kristo ni kupinga majivuno yote ya Shetani kwa upendo uliotukuka wa kujishusha au kujidharirisha, kutokutetereka hata kidogo na tamaa za ulimwengu huu kwa upendo mkubwa wa umaskini, na kutokuyumba wakati wa matatizo kwa sababu wakati wa amani ulijilimbikizia imani.
— Enock Maregesi
Pambana na Shetani kwa upanga wa imani ambao ni ukweli kwani ukweli ndiyo utakaokuweka huru.
— Enock Maregesi
Trials are a measure of your faith, so be courageous when going through trials in life.
— Gift Gugu Mona
There are many things in our society masquerading as faith. What many see as faith may actually be just force of habit, patriotism, stubbornness, family pride, intellectual laziness, childishness, gullibility, or the effects of being brainwashed. The problem is that faith is kept separate from intellect, whereas God wants every part of a Christian, including his mind.
— William Hemsworth, Faith and Reason: How the Two Work to Build a Dynamic Faith
Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dreamIs laid upon thee, golden from the fire.Flinch not, though heavily through that furnace-gleamThe black forge-hammers fall on thy desire.Demoniac giants round thee seem to loom.'Tis but the world-smiths heaving to and fro.Stand like a beaten anvil. Take the doomTheir ponderous weapons deal thee, blow on blow.Needful to truth as dew-fall to the flowerIs this wild wrath and this implacable scorn.For every pang, new beauty, and new power,Burning blood-red shall on thy heart be born.Stand like a beaten anvil. Let earth's wrongBeat on that iron and ring back in song.
— Alfred Noyes, Collected Poems Complete
Faith diminishes fears.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no fear in faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Kumwamini Mwenyezi Mungu wakati wa raha ni rahisi kuliko kumwamini Mwenyezi Mungu wakati wa shida, na utahitaji imani kuendelea kumwamini wakati wa dhiki. Vipindi vigumu katika maisha yetu hutokea kwa kila mmoja wetu. Kuamini ya kwamba Mungu ana makusudi ya lazima kukuondolea vikwazo katika maisha yako ni vigumu sana wakati mwingine, lakini imani ndicho kitu cha muhimu zaidi unachotakiwa kuwa nacho katika kipindi hiki ambacho dunia imekata tamaa. Amani ya Mungu, ambayo huzidi hekima na maarifa yote ya kibinadamu, ni kuliamini neno la Mungu kwamba ni la kweli. Bila imani hutaweza kumfurahisha Mungu. Imani ni ufunguo wa nguvu, uwezo na neema ambavyo Mungu ametupangia. Kwa ufupi, Mungu ni mkubwa kuliko wewe na matatizo yako.
— Enock Maregesi
Kuna nguzo saba ambazo hazina budi kuzingatiwa kama unataka kuheshimiwa na kuwaheshimu wengine. Kwanza kabisa jitambue: wewe ni nani na unafanya nini hapa duniani. Halafu, kabla ya kusema jambo lolote kwa mtu yoyote fikiria kwanza maana au madhara ya hilo unalotaka kulisema. Kisha jifunze tamaduni mbalimbali na watendee wengine kama vile unavyotaka kutendewa au kama vile wanavyotaka kutendewa. Jifunze kusamehe na kusuluhisha migogoro katika jamii unamoishi huku ukidumisha heshima na utu kwa binadamu wenzako. Jijengee imani kwa watu, punguza upendeleo, fanya kazi kama timu kwani hakuna ‘mimi’ katika umoja ila kuna ‘sisi’, na jitahidi kwa kadiri ya uwezo wako WOTE kwa manufaa ya wote. Kuwa kiongozi katika kila jambo unalofanya na katika kila kitu unachofanya. Jitahidi kufanya jambo au kitu kwa usahihi kwa kadiri utakavyoweza.
— Enock Maregesi
Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.
— Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Lonely But Not Alone: A Spiritual Autobiography
...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much the more does the man fail of true satisfaction... even from the sciences... they find that they have, in fact, only brought more trouble on their shoulders rather than gained in happiness; and they end by envying rather than despising the more common stamp of men who keep closer to the guidance of mere instinct, and do not allow their reason much influence on their conduct... [T]here lies at the root of these judgments the idea that our existence has a different and far nobler end, for which, and not for happiness, reason is properly intended...
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Faith is a strange creature,” Schuster said. “Like a falcon that nests year after year in the same place, but then flies away, sometimes for years, only to return again, stronger than ever.
— Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Faith is a flaming light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times over. In fact, maybe I've never actually found God at all, but imagining that I have indeed found something so much larger and more beautiful than I can explain is more often enough for me.
— Ashley Mae Hoiland, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God
Faith is fierce flame.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.
— Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
Christianity is not a doctrine, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life. For 'consciousness of sin' is a real event an so are despair and salvation through faith. Those who speak of such things (Bunyan for instance) are simply describing what has happened to them, whatever gloss anyone may want to put on it.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
Love to love, connection to connection, you carve your complicated path through life; leave one love behind, and the next one always seems out of reach. What can buoy you up in the meantime. What can underlie love, but love.
— Michael Davidow, The Rocketdyne Commission
And when you fall, because you always do fall. When you swim for the beach to catch your board. There’s peace to be found in the shoreward pull with every passing wave.
— Michael Davidow, The Rocketdyne Commission
I think of the New Testament story of the woman with an issue of blood--specifically of her hand reaching out into the clutter and chaos of a crowd, not sure that she would reach Christ, but nevertheless reaching for him in hope. Her story is sacred to me because she truly believed that by reaching outside of the bounds that her culture had set for her--perhaps even the bounds she had set for herself--she could be made whole.
— Ashley Mae Hoiland, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God
To those who in their turn selectively handle Mormon history and discourage our probing it in a number of areas, one needs to say (or at least to ask): Haven’t we been, if anything, overly cautious, overly mistrustful, overly condescending to a membership and a public who are far more perceptive and discerning than we often give them credit for? Haven’t we, in our care not to offend a soul or cause anyone the least misunderstanding, too much deprived such individuals of needful occasions for personal growth and more in-depth life-probing experience? In our neurotic cautiousness, our fear of venturing, haven’t we often settled for an all-too-shallow and confining common denominator that insults the very Intelligence we presume to glorify and is also dishonest because, deep down, we all know better (to the extent that we do)? Isn’t our intervention often too arbitrary, reflecting the hasty, uninformed reaction of only one or a couple of influential objectors? Don’t we in the process too severely and needlessly test the loyalty and respect of and lose credibility with many more than we imagine? Isn’t there a tendency among us, bred by the fear of displeasing, to avoid healthy self-disclosure—public or private—and to pretend about ourselves to ourselves and others? Doesn’t this in turn breed loneliness and make us, more than it should, strangers to each other? And when we are too calculating, too self-conscious, too mistrustful, too prescriptive, and too regimental about our roots and about one another’s aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual life, aren’t we self-defeating?
— Thomas F. Rogers, Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty
Faith is the fountain of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With faith, we can walk though the faire un-harmed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With faith, we can walk through the fair un-harmed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Look Below and You'll feel Rich,Look Above and You'll feel Poor
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.
— Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
... helping each other to have a true gaze on reality, on the circumstances we are living in, is the first gesture of friendship we can offer each other for living like human beings in the presence of the needs of the world.
— Julian Carron, Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom
The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God... It's an unwise habit to use knowledge to further personal ends. Truth should never be used as a means to make us prisoners. It was meant to make us free.
— Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword
Faith doesn't move mountains, but people with faith - and shovels - will move mountains in order to defend their faith.
— Aron Ra
Faith is in your Heart
—  Religion is in your Head.
Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
You need something more than just the scientific method to explain the world in which we live. Beware of false dichotomies (either/or situations) that proponents of scientism assume. You should never have to choose whether or not you believe in either a plane’s engine or gravity. You can have both. You shouldn’t have to accept the existence of Steve Jobs or the iPhone
—  nor should you have to decide whether you believe in God or science. Those who insist that scientific discoveries disprove God are mistaken.
It was all bad, very bad. And the worst of it was not that they had ceased waiting, but that they had ceased to have faith.
— Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan
Faith Food Fun
— dELSON
The claim that science can disprove God’s existence is an honest ambition but it is a statement that is actually impossible to back up. This is because the task of proving something like science is unprovable by scientific methods. How do you prove an idea like “science”? What container do you use to measure it? What laws of science do you use to prove science? That’s the first reason why the worldview of scientism, the belief that science proves everything, fails to work out in real life. Science cannot prove everything because it cannot even prove itself.
— Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason to Hope, a Message to Share
In a Church, user experience is the ultimate marketing and branding strategy. The experience is the product that leads to faith.
— Alin Sav
When you take the time to look at the real relationship between faith and science, you find the two are not enemies; rather, they are friends. Granted, they are friends that do not always agree on everything. No friendship ever does. They have their points of tension. Every friendship has these as well. As friends, faith and science have a great deal of history together. They work hard to hold each other accountable and challenge one another to be better (I hope you have friends like that too).
— Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason to Hope, a Message to Share
Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.
— Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
I do not like being thwarted, but shall I receive good from the God and not also trouble? The voices that say Recover so you can get back to normal, grossly underestimate the gift of this wrecked life. Why is it a gift? Because I would have no compelling reason to step from my comfortable existence into the quest for what’s next if my present security wasn’t taken from me. It is rare for a man to plan his own journey toward growth and change. Usually these journeys are thrust on us unexpectedly… If my ego tried to plan this journey, it would be limited by the expectations of what I would already hope to find. There would be no element of surprise, wonder, or faith--just a forced march towards a future my present self assumes is what I need. THat would not be a journey of faith but of control--and a fool’s errand. Faith is the conviction to trust that there are good things out beyond what I can see and would never know to pursue--glorious things God himself will bring to pass. I need those glorious things.
— Russ Ramsey, Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
Kilio kikuu cha Yesu, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabakthani?”, yaani, “Mungu wangu, Mungu wangu, mbona umeniacha?”, na “Imekwisha”, vilitabiriwa katika Zaburi 22 ili watu waliompinga Kristo waamini kama Yesu alikuwa Masihi. Zaburi 22 ulikuwa wimbo maarufu katika kipindi cha karne ya kwanza, kipindi ambacho Yesu alizaliwa na kufa, uliotungwa na mfalme Daudi, ulioitwa ‘zaburi ya mateso na matumaini ya mwadilifu’. Kwa hiyo Yesu aliposema maneno hayo yaliwaingia watu akilini, na kuanzia hapo imani hasa ya Ukristo ikachukua kasi hadi leo hii. Zaburi 22 inaanza na “Mungu wangu, Mungu wangu, mbona umeniacha?” na inaisha na “Imekwisha”, miongoni mwa maneno saba aliyoyasema Yesu pale msalabani Golgotha. Kwa hiyo, Zaburi 22 ni utabiri wa kifo cha Yesu.
— Enock Maregesi
Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight.
— Missionaries Who Love The Arab World, Live Dead: The Journey
You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy ChurchYou could say I lost my sense of directionYou could say all of this and worse, ...Some would say I was a lost man in a lost worldYou could say I lost my faith in the people on TVYou could say I'd lost my belief in our politiciansThey all seemed like game show hosts to me...I never saw no miracle of scienceThat didn't go from a blessing to a curseI never saw no military solutionThat didn't always end up as something worse--Excerpts from "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
— Sting
Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems impossible, Faith makes it possible.
— Gift Gugu Mona
He was a committed leader, capable of - or prone to - instinctive decisions. More: he could put aside thought in the service of forceful action. But in quiet moments his sensitivity sometimes led him to reconsider his own behaviour. In other words, Atticus had a conscience, and it was this that led him to what some would call faith.
— André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs
Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of faith in general. … [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, … The specific object of faith, therefore, is miracle; … To faith nothing is impossible, and miracle only gives actuality to this omnipotence of faith[.]
— Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.
— Stephen R. Covey
Most reject the more repugnant or indefensible dogmas while still holding onto some core belief. Many believers will proudly describe themselves as "reasonable" or "rational" based on how little of their religion they still embrace versus how much they now reject. I think it's funny when people realize that the less you believe the more reasonable you are, but they stop before they reach the logical conclusion.
— Aron Ra
Katika dunia ya leo ambapo mamilioni ya watu hutegemea utandawazi kupata pesa, kuwa na imani kwamba kupokea pesa kutoka kwa mtu usiyemjua au mtu mwenye nia mbaya na wewe ni kikwazo kikubwa cha maendeleo kwa sababu, karibu kila mtu unayekutana naye ni Shetani. Shetani ni mtu yoyote mwenye nia mbaya na wewe. Hivyo, kama uliwahi kuambiwa kwamba kupokea pesa kutoka kwa mtu usiyemjua ni kitu kibaya futa imani hiyo. Utaachaje kupokea pesa kutoka kwa mtu usiyemjua wakati kila siku unamwomba Mungu akusaidie, na Mungu hutenda kazi zake pale tunapojisahau? La sivyo hutapata pesa unayotamani kupata katika maisha yako, na kamwe hutawaamini watu. Zaka huondoa laana ya mapato. Toa zaka kununua pepo uliyopewa na Mungu.
— Enock Maregesi
You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution
—  you have not kept faith with yourselves
God doesn't listen to me too, but people have their suspicions. सुनता तो रब हमारी भी नहीं,पर लोगों को अल्लाह पे शक बेशक है
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
It might be your fate not to succeed, but your FAITH in you can change your fate.
— Stephen Magnus
Faith is the greatest magic of all.
— Farah Oomerbhoy, The Rise of the Dawnstar
Get up. Faith is the greatest magic of all. It can lift the world out of the darkness and bring it into the light. Be the Star of the Morning, the light that fills the world with magic. Be the Lightbringer, the Breaker of Shadows. Believe in yourself, Aurora Firedrake; believe in the Dawnstar. For if you have faith, anything is possible.
— Farah Oomerbhoy, The Rise of the Dawnstar
A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils.
— James Hannaham, Delicious Foods
We are the children of gods and angels.
— Marie Lu, The Young Elites
The point is, being a Christian does not mean hating or belittling the non-Christians. Being a Muslim does not mean hating or belittling the non-Muslims. Being an Atheist does not mean hating or belittling the religious people. In a civilized society, diversity in religious orientation should be the reason for celebration, not the cause for hatred and differentiation.
— Abhijit Naskar
When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the pieces that make up you.
— Blaque Diamond
A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the moment, that person starts to build a wall of separation between the self and the rest of humanity, coaxed by the textual commands of a scripture, the healthy religiousness turns into dangerous fundamentalism, which is a threat to both the self and the society.
— Abhijit Naskar
Joy is not the absence of darkness. Joy is confidence that the darkness will lift.
— Rebekah Lyons
วันหนึ่งในฤดูหนาว สมัยที่คุณเป็นนักเรียนมัธยม หิมะกำลังตก คุณกำลังครุ่นคิดอะไรบางอย่างจนลืมสิ่งอื่น คุณได้ยินเสียงพระเจ้าในตัวคุณ และคุณก็พยายามจะลืมพระองค์ให้ได้ คุณเห็นว่าโลกนี้เป็นหนึ่งเดียว แต่คุณคิดว่าถ้าสามารถหลับตาลงไม่มองภาพนี้ คุณจะเศร้าหมองได้มากกว่าและมีสติปัญญาล้ำเลิศกว่าด้วย ซึ่งคุณก็คิดถูกแล้ว มีแต่คนที่ฉลาดมากๆ หม่นหมองมากๆ เท่านั้นที่จะเขียนบทกวีได้ดี ดังนั้นคุณจึงยืดอกอย่างหาญกล้าและแบกรับความเจ็บปวดของการไร้ศรัทธา เพียงเพื่อจะได้เขียนบทกวีดีๆ แต่หารู้ไม่ว่าเมื่อคุณสูญเสียเสียงข้างในที่ว่านั้นไป สุดท้ายคุณจะลงเอยอย่างโดดเดี่ยวในจักรวาลอันว่างเปล่า
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
ต่อให้คุณเชื่อในพระเจ้าจริง มันจะไปได้เรื่องได้ราวอะไรถ้าคุณเชื่ออยู่คนเดียว คุณจะต้องเชื่อในพระเจ้าแบบเดียวกับที่คนยากจนเชื่อ คุณต้องกลายเป็นหนึ่งในคนพวกนั้นด้วย คุณจะต้องกินสิ่งที่พวกนั้นกิน ใช้ชีวิตแบบที่พวกนั้นเป็น หัวเราะเรื่องตลกที่พวกนั้นหัวเราะกัน แล้วก็โกรธทุกครั้งที่พวกนั้นโกรธ คุณถึงจะเชื่อในพระเจ้าของพวกนั้นได้ ถ้าคุณกลับตาลปัตรใช้ชีวิตที่ต่างออกไป ก็จะเป็นไปไม่ได้ที่คุณจะไปนับถือพระเจ้าองค์เดียวกันกับพวกนั้น
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
When we can step back even briefly from our hurt, sorrow, and anger, when we put our faith in the possibility of change, we create the possibility for non-judgmental inquiry that aims for healing rather than victory.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
นายไม่ไว้ใจคนที่ไม่ชอบยุ่งเกี่ยวกับใคร มีแนวคิดแบบตะวันตก ขณะเดียวกันก็มีความเชื่อในพระเจ้าในแบบของตัวเองอยู่เงียบๆ ตามลำพัง นายมองว่าคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้าแต่ยังเข้าร่วมกับชุมชน ยังน่าเชื่อถือได้มากกว่าคนสันโดษที่เชื่อในพระเจ้าเสียอีก สำหรับนายแล้ว คนสันโดษน่าสมเพชเวทนาและบาปยิ่งว่าคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้า
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long. Jihad or Holy war would keep festering one way or another, until religious fundamentalism is eradicated from the human society. Until the whole humanity learns to scrutinize its most revered scriptures with the sharp tool of reasoning, Jihad will keep on striking over the world. If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age. No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self. There shall be hope for harmony and peace in the world, only when fundamentalism is destroyed forever. Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compromised.
— Abhijit Naskar
ผมเคยเปิดสารานุกรมดูแล้ว คำว่า atheist มาจากคำภาษากรีกว่า athos แต่คำนี้ ไม่ได้หมายถึงคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้า มันหมายถึงคนโดดเดี่ยว คนที่พระเจ้าละทิ้งต่างหาก เรื่องนี้พิสูจน์ว่าคนเรานั้นแท้จริงแล้วไม่สามารถเป็น atheist ได้ เพราะต่อให้อยากเป็น พระเจ้าก็จะไม่มีวันทอดทิ้งพวกเราที่นี่ ฉะนั้นการจะเป็น atheist ได้ คุณจะต้องเป็นคนตะวันตกเสียก่อน
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.
— Richie Norton
Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had no faith in any of it. Faith in mathematics, yes; faith in logic, of course; faith in the trajectory of the stars, yes, perhaps. But faith in a God, Christian or otherwise?
— Robert   Harris, Enigma
When a person believes that a God is truly concerned about the well-being of life on earth, and especially of human life, the belief adorns that person with various positive psychological elements such as emotional stability, in times of distress and a highly functional moral compass. Here this belief has nothing to do with reality whatsoever, rather it serves the evolutionary purpose of self-preservation.
— Abhijit Naskar
The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the actual individual sensation of faith. Historical experiences of the Kingdom of God gave rise to all the scriptures in the world, but the scriptures themselves don’t account for the actual globally prevalent psychological element of faith or divinity in the human mind. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.
— Abhijit Naskar
Man can have faith without religion, but religion cannot have faith without man.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Sometimes when I open my Bible to read, a verse leaps off the page and I know God is speaking to me. Sometimes I read and nothing seems to be illuminated. Sometimes I pray and have the keen sense that He is listening to every word and will answer me. Sometimes when I pray, I have no awareness that He's anywhere around. Sometimes when I go to church or draw aside for some quiet reflection, I have the overwhelming sense that Jesus is right beside me. At other times in the exact same settings, I have no conscious awareness of His presence at all. And I know by each experience — as I read my Bible and pray and work and worship — that He is teaching me to live by FAITH, not by my feelings.
— Anne Graham Lotz, The Magnificent Obsession