c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce
—  it always concludes that the needs outweigh the resources.
The abundant life Jesus spoke of isn't opposed to the material, but it consists of more than just the material.
— Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You
When I harvest my life right up to the edges, I have collected every last kernel of blessing.
— Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You
I have pursued the comfort of things, when all along Comfort is a Person.
— Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You
Do I believe that God is right here, ready to be my comfort in every situation?
— Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You
With prayer, we shall keep our heart pure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Destiny calls, desirable chosen.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One faith, one family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you are still alive, time is now, reject sin, seek righteousness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To reject the Word of God is to forsake the holy grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To reject the Holy Scripture is to reject the Holy Spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not hold a lazy faith. Miracles are not spontaneous events we must wait for helplessly. Miracles are an achievement—a breakthrough accomplished by those who pushed themselves beyond what was thought possible while holding a belief in a better life. Get up off your knees, and roll up your sleeves.
— L.M. Browning
It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a universal brotherhood under Jesus Christ. Christian love is the white man's love for himself and for his race.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
And now everybody get the understanding that Gilzene did get. A man cannot rise on his own. Not even a powerful man like Alexander Bedward. Him did need us. Him did need Augustown. It was we who had to push him up into the sky. It was we who had to show our faith to the governor and everybody else.
— Kei Miller, Augustown
It's nice to know in my life Jesus is behind me. There have been times when I thought that I was going through my struggle myself. I was resentful of anyone that was happy around me since I was bitter that I had to go through , what I felt to be, a very unbearable trial. It was a good relief to know that I could talk to Jesus about my problems when I felt like I had no one else to talk to. It was comforting to know that He understood my dilemma when others couldn't.
— Sunshine Rodgers, God The Father Jesus The Big Brother Holy Spirit The Best Friend
Is there any force like faith?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ died to save all mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To forget God's law is our tragedy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ is Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To love God is to keep his commandment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We don't even know we are family of faith?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are one in spirit of faith of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is expressed in love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you say you are losing it, it actually means you are losing faith in yourself.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
It is so easy and effortless for Christians to just join a church and follow its leadership and practices without seeking the Lord for personal discernment.
— Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.
— Orrin Woodward
Unblessed are the hypocrites who are proud of their Christianity but fear the devil.
— Robin Sacredfire
Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
At the dawn of light, darkness disappears.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Depart from the deeds of darkness. Return to path of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever knows God, depart from evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever doubt is in state of delusion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Just as we are, we come to Christ Jesus, He will change us to his image.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ is the Saviour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To be content is to live without your wants.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sole sacred duty is to fear God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever fear God , shun sin.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Lord Jesus Christ is a blameless Lamb.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To repent is depart from evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To repent is to depart from evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.
— DaShanne Stokes
I made the fearful decision to head to Sydney, Australia, to study the Bible. My calling, my wife, Laura, my church, my passion—all were behind the scariest door of all time. Since that day, this remains exactly true: Fear never leaves. But the way we handle it can always change.
— Carl Lentz, Own The Moment
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
— Charles A. Lindbergh
A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from faith in the folly of the Cross.
— Emile Bougaud, The Life of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Surrender is Serenity & a Bridge to Bliss.
— Julieanne O'Connor
There is only one reason to be passionate about a lack of faith—and that is fear,” said Caeden quietly. “Fear that you are wrong. An innate need for others to share your opinion, so that you can be less afraid.” He shook his head. “I do not feel the need to argue, to cajole, to threaten or accuse. If others wish to believe differently, that is no business of mine. I simply do not think that there are gods.
— James Islington, An Echo Of Things To Come
What the ultra-conservative (or the merely timid and compliant) fail to realize is that a Christianity which wields its moral and dogmatic authority like a hammer actually sows despair in the hearts of the faithful to the point where faith is destroyed.
— Angela Tilby
Through understanding of God way's of grace, a man find grace to turn away from evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is a fortified wall.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The word of God is a testimony of warning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Kindled the fire within you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The fire is a flame.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The blazing fire burns!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Holy One is a flame.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Fear is a faint heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The will to succeed should be powerful: The willingness to prepare for success is paramount (KR, 1990)
— Kieran Revell, The Unstoppable Power Within: Imagine the Possibilities
Maladict had hallucinations, but Wazzer had a certainty you could bend steel around. It was the opposite of a hallucination, somehow. It was as if she could see what was real and you couldn't.
— Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
We show confidence and faith in our own selves as well as in life when we decide to let go.
— Latika Teotia
Kršćanin koji je izgubio vedrinu, postao je beživotan i više je svjedok protiv vjere nego za vjeru.
— Zoran Vukman, Bogoubojstvo Zapada
I might not have risen to destroy people's beliefs, but some beliefs do need destruction if the human society is meant to progress in harmony instead of sinking into the depths of illustrious interhuman conflicts. Meekness-induced prejudices have no place in the society of thinking humanity.
— Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
A good understanding is to keep the great law.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is freedom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me:“It takes courage.It takes believing in it.It takes work.It takes rising above it.It takes me liking you, and you liking me.It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right.Never stop dreaming.Think about it.
— Gloria Vanderbilt, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
When we grow in faith, the doubt shall ceased.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace
Through faith we find peace And above allIt is in loving that we find life
— Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.
— Edmund Gosse, Father and Son
Faith Never does seem Feasible
— Jocelyn Andersen
I don't understand how can people hold faith and reasoning in the same head. To my understanding, faith, like love, is blind.
— Tarif Naaz
Whoever believed in Jesus Christ, shall be justified by faith in Son of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Without faith, we faint.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever blessings, shall be abundantly blessed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is a fertile field.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we put faith in Christ Jesus, we are justified by faith in Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live can only be fully lived by faith in the spirit of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have to go through the fires to be tested by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the unity of two souls but one spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believers believe in their own selves first- that’s the foundation for believing in others. For achieving anything, you have to have self confidence and faith in your own self.
— Latika Teotia
Prayers bring comfort, not change. Change requires tangible human efforts.
— Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
A colorful body with fabrics, tattoos and jewelry is attractive, but a colorful heart with love, truth and faith is beautiful.
— Anthony Liccione
Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!
— Napoléon Bonaparte
There were moments when it hurt so bad you couldn’t breathe, yet somehow you survived the pain. There were days when you could barely put one foot in front of the other, yet somehow you arrived at your destination. There were nights when you cried yourself to sleep, yet somehow you held on until the morning. Your life is nothing less than a miracle.
— Eleanor Brownn
My former bishop Allan Bjorberg once said that the greatest spiritual practice isn't yoga or praying the hours or living in intentional poverty, although these are all beautiful in their own way. The greatest spiritual practice is just showing up. And Mary Magdalene is the patron saint of just showing up. Showing up, to me, means being present to what is real, what is actually happening. Mary Magdalene didn't necessarily know what to say or what to do or even what to think when she encountered the risen Jesus. But none of that was nearly as important as the fact that she was present and attentive to him.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
I played my role as the good Christian girl and spared everyone the drama of an argument. But that decision to remain silent split me in two. It convinced me that I could never really be myself in church. That I had to check my heart and mind at the door.
— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Turns out, I wasn't the only one struggling with doubt. I wasn't the only one questioning my church's position on homosexuality and gender roles, and a whole host of other issues. I wasn't the only one who felt lonely on Sunday mornings.
— Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I had a vague realisation that I was just trying to keep up with some version of myself that I had decided was accurate.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Amri ya Kristo ilipima imani ya yule kipofu, ikiithibitisha na kuiimarisha. Bila kuchelewa au kusita, kipofu alitii amri ya Mungu: Alikwenda kuosha macho yake katika bwawa la Siloamu na aliona. Wengi wanaweza kuona ni kazi ya kipuuzi kwa mtu ambaye ni kipofu kufanya kazi ndogo kama hiyo ili aone. Lakini kwa vile alitii, kipofu alipona. Baraka huja kupitia utii. Kwa maana nyingine, kipofu alimtii Yesu bila kuona. Lakini matokeo yake, alipata kuona papohapo; ambapo baadaye, hatimaye, alipokea uponyaji halisi wa kiroho.
— Enock Maregesi
Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these kinds of tragic events. Those platitudes are tempting, but they're nothing but luxuries for people who've never had demons (or at least have never admitted to them). But equally, she would reject nihilism, or the idea that there is no real meaning in life or death - ideas present in so much of postmodernity. Those ideas, too, are luxuries, but they are for those who have never been freed from demons.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had seemed good and kind and had expressed her thoughts without any false pride or pretense. He had admired her forthrightness and her compassion. And although he had never thought of a wife with strong opinions was a good thing, he actually found he liked her opinions-or at least admired her for having them. He wanted to get to know her, to know everything that was in her heart. He wanted to marry her and, surprising even himself, to love her.
— Melanie Dickerson, The Beautiful Pretender
Faith requires at times marching into the waters before they part.
— Walter Wink, The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium
The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.
— Diana Butler Bass, Grounded: Finding God in the World. A Spiritual Revolution
People who believe more must not be hard upon those believe less. Why? Because faith, ultimately, is not a virtue; it's a gift. If you want to believe but can't, stop looking inside. Go to Jesus and say, "help me believe." Go to him and say, "So you're the one who gives faith. I've been trying to work it out by reasoning, and thinking, and meditating, and going to church in hopes that a sermon will move me. I've been trying to get faith by myself. Now I see that you are the source of faith. Please, give it to me. " If you do that, you'll find that Jesus has been seeking you. He is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith. (from King's Cross)
— Timothy Keller
Keep hoping until hope dies; remember, however, that hope never dies! Just take good steps with faith and hope!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Την επομένη δεν κουνήθηκα, όλη μέρα αναμασούσα τις σκέψεις μου. Σκεφτόμουν την Ιστορία, με κεφαλαία, και τη δική μου ιστορία, τη δική μας. Αυτοί που γράφουν την πρώτη γνωρίζουν τη δεύτερη; Πώς η μνήμη κάποιων συγκρατεί αυτό που άλλοι έχουν ξεχάσει ή δεν το είδαν ποτέ; Ποιος έχει δίκιο, αυτός που είναι αποφασισμένος να μην εγκαταλείψει στο σκοτάδι το παρελθόν ή αυτός που πετάει στη λήθη ό,τι δεν τον βολεύει; Μήπως, για να ζήσεις, για να συνεχίσεις να ζεις, ίσως πρέπει ν’ αποφασίσεις ότι η πραγματικότητα δεν είναι απολύτως αληθινή ή μήπως πρέπει να επιλέξεις μιαν άλλη πραγματικότητα όταν αυτή που έχεις βιώσει σου είναι δυσβάσταχτη; Άλλωστε αυτό δεν έκανα στο στρατόπεδο; Δεν επέλεξα να ζήσω με την ανάμνηση και την προσδοκία της Εμέλια, πετώντας την καθημερινότητά μου στην εξωπραγματικότητα του εφιάλτη; Μήπως η Ιστορία είναι η μέγιστη αλήθεια υφασμένη από εκατομμύρια ξεχωριστά ψέματα, όπως οι παλιές κουβέρτες που έφτιαχνε η Φεντορίν για να μας θρέψει όταν ήμουν παιδί και φαίνονταν καινούριες και πανέμορφες μέσα στο ουράνιο τόξο των χρωμάτων τους, ενώ αποτελούνταν από κουρέλια, ανομοιογενή σχήματα, μαλλιά αμφίβολης ποιότητας κι άγνωστης προέλευσης;
— Philippe Claudel, Brodeck
Religion means peace! Faith means understanding!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is better to be redeemed than to be rich.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The fear of God is a fierce faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in God is an eager expectation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever calls on the Savior, shall be saved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is a sacred fruit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.
— Harry Truman
Whoever shall call on God, shall be saved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We all know that there is a reward for every labour as well as there is a reward for every game played and won. How committed you are in life determines your reward.
— Godspower Oparaugo, Wake Up
If you can survive and won the battle over other millions of semen deposited alongside with you in your mothers womb, tell me why you cannot win the battle over challenges, difficulties and poverty? Friend, I know you will succeed because; you'd once done it in the womb.
— Godspower Oparaugo, Wake Up
it is not what happens to you, it is what happens in you.
— Sesan Kareem
Only when we pray for one another, we will have peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny
— Aysha Taryam
Risk is one of the qualities of any good decision. This is so because, decision itself is a risk. Therefore, making a decision literally means, taking a risk... In tracing the histories of successful men and women, the first thing to notice in their lives is risk.
— Godspower Oparaugo, The Power of Decision: Your Destiny Lies in Your Decisions
The faithfulness of God is forever sure.
— Lailah Gifty, Akita
Sin is a shameful act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If today is all you have to live, what will you do?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading the recipe of your grandma’s chicken soup will never compare to the taste. Seeing a magnificent sunset will never compare to somebody else’s description of that same sunset. Feeling the electrifying sensation of a passionate kiss will never compare to a second-hand account. Nothing replaces experience. If experience is at the heart of every religion, then theology points the way, practice gives us the vehicle, but we must take the steps if we want to personally explore our faith and reap experiences rather than rely solely on second-hand accounts.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Experifaith is distinctly different from storyfaith. It does not provide answers to life’s big questions. Rather, it proposes a path of discovery through practice, where a person can come to his or her own conclusions. As such, it has more in common with the modern scientific method than storyfaith does, and, when practiced properly, experifaith is mostly verifiable within a community of practitioners.
— Gudjon Bergmann
In an ideal world, both experifaith and storyfaith would provide spiritual aspirants of all faiths with guidance. Storyfaith would preserve tradition and teach morals through parables and examples. Experifaith would provide the blueprint for a personal path to follow. In the context of chocolate, storyfaith is a lecture about chocolate, including information about origins and fables about positive attributes, while experifaith is the literal act of tasting the chocolate.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Monogamy is faith in the faithless
— Virginia Alison
Rabbi, the great Teacher, Jesus Christ.
— Laiah Gifty Akita
A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?
— Dwight L. Moody, How to Study the Bible
May the grace of faith, keep you going in the forward motion to reach the ultimate goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The choice of courage is the confident in JESUS CHRIST.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in Jesus Christ is a continuous effort.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is a fortitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The way of sin is physical death of soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why do we claim to know Jesus Christ, but deny him in our action?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The holy sword, the Holy Scripture.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest power is the power of pray.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes it takes heartache to put you on the path toward making your heart full.
— Kristin McKenzie Rice, Love What Matters: A 15 Week Interactive Study
In a world full of nouns, be a verb.
— Kristin McKenzie Rice, Love What Matters: A 15 Week Interactive Study
We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat of meaninglessness away. We believe because we crave to be seen, to be known, to be understood. We believe because that is the only thing we can do. If there is no one to judge us - to tell us that we are good, and that if we are bad, we can be redeemed - why bother living at all? Why bother being good at all? If there is no one to look after us, and we are truly alone in this universe, what purpose do we have? We have nothing but the present moment, and only temporariness.
— Tarun Betala, The Things We Don't Know:  How mankind found answers to some of life's most pressing questions.
The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.
— Adam Roberts, Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea
No men can save himself, that's why Jesus was nailed on the cross.
— Evans Biya
God is not worried about what you have but about who has you.
— Evans Biya
The death of a man is his sins.
— Evans Biya
The key to your heart should be held by the One who made it.
— Kristin McKenzie Rice, Love What Matters: A 15 Week Interactive Study
You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?
— Faith Erin Hicks, The Stone Heart
More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us.
— Steve Alten, The Loch
Love as if your life depends on it. He already showed you how.
— Kristin McKenzie Rice, Love What Matters: A 15 Week Interactive Study
Love what matters in a world that loves itself.
— Kristin McKenzie Rice, Love What Matters: A 15 Week Interactive Study
The flame of the spirit is a burning lamp.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Seek your higher life, the holy heavenly living.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Buddha lets me see the world in color so that I can appreciate its color.Just as God too lets you see the color of beauty in the world.And so too with Allah because he lets you see the beauty in everything.....I cannot begin to understand all religions, but I know one thing.Color brings love into our world regardless of who we are; what we preach or what we believe in.And to me, that is the only truth that I know.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Stand like a beaten anvil.It is the part of a good athlete to be bruised and to prevail.
— Ignatius of Antioch, The Epistles of Ignatius and Polycarp
When you have faith in yourself, the possibilities are endless.
— Anthony T. Hincks
It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since.
— Frederick Buechner, The Faces of Jesus: A Life Story
Uncleanness is the works of the sinful nature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let your faith be in the Lord Jesus and not in your strength, to fight against ungodliness and injustice in the society.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
Once she'd graduated from Ever After High, she'd open her own chain of bakeries. She'd publish cookbooks and create an entire line of gourmet treats under her label, Ginger's Goodies. By sharing her talents on a larger scale, she'd help make the world a happier place. For Ginger Breadhouse believed, with every ounce, gram, and sprinkle of her soul, that good food was one of the secret ingredients to happiness. Whether in times of celebration or sadness, beautifully prepared goodies had the power to bring people together.
— Suzanne Selfors, Kiss and Spell
If we believed in the blessed Saviour, we shall be saved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we believe in the Blessed Saviour, we shall be saved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Blessed Saviour is our Lord Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
Humanity greatest need is God's grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No mere mortal can do what the Son of man did
—  Christ Jesus sacrifice is life to save mankind.
Christ Jesus sacrifice is life to save mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If your faith is strong enough, she'll be healed.' If I've heard that once, I've heard it a thousand times. The problem is, when someone tells you that, they're not asking you to put faith in the power of God; they're asking you to put faith in the power of your own faith. And I can't even pretend that my mustard-seed faith measures up to the promises of God.
— Christy Wilson Beam, Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
— Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette
Faith can never be lost.It can only be misplaced.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Live in a way that is worth Christ dying for.
— Kristin McKenzie Rice, Love What Matters: A 15 Week Interactive Study
Close your eyes. Meditate on your love. This is God.
— Kamand Kojouri
It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conservative shell, unless he feels discomfort there.
— Tarif Naaz
He knows all my thoughts. He knows all I’ve ever done and He loves me all the same. What is our purpose, you ask. It is to love like God.
— Kamand Kojouri
Faith is the light of fire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some think that authority over the devil belongs to only a few chosen people to whom God has given special power. It doesn’t
—  it belongs to all the children of God.
We receive the authority when we are born again. As we are made new creatures in Christ Jesus, we inherit the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we can use it in prayer against the enemy.
— Kenneth E. Hagin, The Believer's Authority
Salvation belongs to the sinner. Jesus already has bought the salvation of the worst sinner, just as He did for us. That’s the reason He told us to go tell the Good News; go tell sinners they’re reconciled to God.
— Kenneth E. Hagin
There’s no sin problem. Jesus settled that. There’s just a sinner problem. Get the sinner to Jesus, and that cures the problem.
— Kenneth E. Hagin, The Believer's Authority
We must have this spirit of wisdom and revelation of Christ and His Word if we are to grow. It is not going to be imparted to us through our intellect, either. The Holy Spirit must unveil it to us.
— Kenneth E. Hagin, The Believer's Authority
Faith in God is sure foundation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.
— Kamand Kojouri
Our combat with the devil always should be with the consciousness that we have authority always should be with the consciousness that we have authority over him because he is a defeated foe – the Lord Jesus Christ defeated him for us.
— Kenneth E. Hagin, The Believer's Authority
Faith is holy flame.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The bond of brotherhood is we are sisters and brothers in love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No work for grace. It can only be received through faith in Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No work for God's grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Christ Jesus dwell in the hearts of a community of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It takes heart to battle great challenges, great faith to be victorious over them.
— Wayne Chirisa
I'd always thought it was gaudy, but standing there watching him beside the gold and glass shrine, I realised that his was a candlelight faith. It didn't work in the clear unforgiving light in London or Scandinavia, where even the dust in the cathedrals showed. But in the warm dimness and the shadows, what would have been tasteless at home made sense. The shrine looked like an oil painting made into real substance. So did he. England's was a reading religion, one it was difficult to understand at the bleak unimpressive first glance, one that needed books to explain itself. But his was images and images, the same as the old stages, in a place where not everyone could read and good light was expensive.
— Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks
Dad?" Jesus asked."Yes son?" God replied."Why does man have so many religions?" Jesus asked."It's because they all have different beliefs," God said."Why?" Jesus asked."It's because they have a free mind. It's up to them to choose what they wish to believe in," God said."But, what if they forget about you?" Jesus asked his dad.God replied, "Even though they may forget about me, they will always remember me. Would you ever forget me?" God asked."Never!" said Jesus, "How could I ever forget my father?""Exactly! And so it is for them," God added.
— Anthony T. Hincks
In the same way you can find God in the beauty of nature, you can find God in the beauty of the destitute. We're not meant to just admire the trees, we're meant to share life.
— Cheryl Reed, Unveiled
I felt the faith of being, when my sins were washed by blood of holy Lamb, Jesus Christ, holy sacrifice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No."Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
— Paul Tillich
For God and for the future generations.
— Sarah Holman, The Destiny of a Galaxy
Until our last breath, we must fight the good fight of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A holy fast is the food of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The holy faith is the strong force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
O heavenly Father increase our Faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My eyes is fixed on faith in God alone.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Holy Faith is fear for God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness is first act of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dont wait for anything that will not wait for you.
— -sarvesh
God's grace is the gift of salvation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you stand firm in the light, you can never be diminish by the doom of darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Praying is passionate faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Each man act according to his faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is the force of action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith in God is the force of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The curse of sin is nullify by the blood of Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Christianity is a living faith in Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To forgive is to love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Truth never dies.
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, In the House of the Interpreter
GOD can turn every curse into a blessings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Christianity is righteousness of Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gfty Akita
Christianity is faith in a Righteous God .
— Lailah Gfty Akita
- Padre Peregrine, non ti comporterai mai con un po' di serietà?- No, finché il nostro Signore benedetto non farà altrettanto. Ti prego, non fare quella faccia così terribilmente scandalizzata! Il Signore non è mai troppo serio. In effetti, è difficile dire che cos'altro sia, oltre a infinito amore. E l’amore più puro è anche letizia, non ti sembra? Non puoi amare nessuno, senza andare d’accordo con lui, e non puoi andare d’accordo con chiunque in qualunque momento, a meno di non ridere di lui bonariamente. E’ vero o no? Senza dubbio noi somigliamo a buffi animaletti che si rivoltano nella coppa della marmellata, e Dio deve amarci tanto più in quanto risvegliamo il Suo senso umoristico.
— Ray Bradbury
Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. Some of the most wonderful things in the world are invisible. Trusting in invisible things makes them more powerful and wondrous.
— Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Tak perlu terlalu terang, hanya cukup ada dan tak kunjung padam.
— Unknown
Kalau nanti aku tidak asik lagi. Tidak menyenangkan lagi. Ingatkan aku tentang hal-hal yang pernah membuatmu bersikeras mempertahankanku.
— Unknown
Unbelief hardness human heart to be like a rock.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pada awalnya semua, semua bangga pada pilihannya. Tapi pada akhirnya, tidak semua orang setia pada pilihannya. Karena yang tersulit dalam hidup, bukan memilih tapi bertahan pada pilihan.
— Unknown
Đavo ti neće naplatiti ulaz, ali će ti uvek naplatiti izlaz. Makar će pokušati. Zapravo, on je nepopravljivi optimi­sta! Možeš da mu okreneš leđa. On tebi neće nikada. Stalno će te posećivati, svraćati na čaj, da vidi da li si se predomislio, da li si možda slab da ponovo poveruješ u njegovu istinu.
— Tamara Kučan, Indigo
I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.
— Karen Swallow Prior, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
If Jesus finished His work for us then be confident that He will finish His work in us. He is a FINISHER!
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
The fight of faith can only be won by the holy word of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The personal study of Holy Bible is essential to knowing God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The knowledge of God is a sacred pursuit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To know Christ Jesus is to seek God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And we, too, being called by His will to Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
— Clement of Rome, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
We are new creation in Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God change us in every circumstance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life did come with a manual.
— Joyce Rachelle
Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.
— Jack Kerouac
Faith in God will elevate you to next level blessings.
— Germany Kent
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Prayer is not meant to always give us the answers we want. It is not the resting place upon which the scales of our faith and trust are balanced. It is not the reason for faith, but rather the result of a faith we already have.
— Elizabeth D. Marie, Chasing Cinders
THE CHOICE LIES IN THY HAND O GOD!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whatever you feel is the force of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission to do so because I have exercised the faith that it’s there.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The truest family is the family of faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I don’t regret meeting Jon. I knew that God put us together early. I knew he was my destiny, but sometimes as if I was a fisherman I wanted to throw back my destiny and start again
— Anna Aquino
Nosey gossiping church members were sucking out my passion for life leaving me an irritable shell of what I felt called to do on this earth. Surely that hadn’t been God’s will. The comfortable stuffy American church needed to wake up from their petty problems, and see what it was like for two minutes for Christians in the rest of the world.
— Anna Aquino
These quasi-faithful are growing in strength. They are the fundamentalists today, and they abound in all the religions.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, The Union Moujik
Politicians like the effect of alcohol because it makes them feel important.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, The Union Moujik
Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, The Union Moujik
Faith goes hand in hand with the belief in a supreme purpose that includes everybody, a purpose that is for mankind’s ultimate peace, harmony and happiness.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, The Union Moujik
They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up its persecutors and its martyrs, its hates and slanders and aspirations and heroisms, to the arms of that great Silence whose secrets they all claimed so loudly to have read. Even the dogmas for which they fought might seem to be dead too. For if Julian and Sallustius, Gregory and John Chrysostom, were to rise again and see the world as it now is, they would probably feel their personal differences melt away in comparison with the vast difference between their world and this. They fought to the death about this credo and that, but the same spirit was in all of them.
— Gilbert Murray, Five Stages of Greek Religion
cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale
— Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Even in an empty room, we are never alone.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Every Christian must subject the rule of King Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Son of God is the Saviour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Maker is full of great mercy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The heavenly Father is the Father to the fatherless.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whatever you do needs a true you.
— Auliq-Ice
What a privilege to pray?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The heavenly Father foreknew the future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Give thanks to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Righteousness is by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No soul sin beyond recovery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Christ Jesus is the Church.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems possible, Faith makes it possible.
— Gift Gugu Mona
The grace of God is joyous gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is the faith of a dance dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we study the Scriptures, we find the well of salvation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Secret Revealer is the Righteous God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The fight of faith can only be won by holy word o God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To be free is to seek faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
O LORD let thy peace be upon all people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands-hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails
— G.P. Taylor, The Great Mogul Diamond
Who are we, to pass judgment on one another. When we have once done the same foolish acts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not be your own devil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The future is a dark cave. So focus on the now, where it steps. Make of faith the spark that illuminates and of positivity the sound that echoes.
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Whoever wishes to be free, shall seek the faith of liberty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Belief about God is religion. Belief in God is faith.
— J.Adam Snyder
It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong.
— Anne Brontë
It is of the very nature of partial seeing that we cannot see all the reconciliation of the parts we see, because it is only in the whole that they are one, and we do not see the whole. The word we form cannot wholly express God: only the Word He generates can do that. To be irked at this necessary darkness is as though we were irked at not being God.
— Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity
Have faith in fate. You don't have a choice.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
Everyday. Every single day I watched how big the tree was. How magnificent that. One day just like that I climbed it. That day everything changed. Neither was the tree same to me nor was I anymore.
— D.N. Joshi
When God calls us to do something, its rarely safe but its always right.
— Jayce O'Neal
O LORD God give us a heart to heed to thy holy word.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands- hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails
— G.P. Taylor, The Great Mogul Diamond
O LORD GOD let thy glory fill the earth as it is in heaven.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To be free is to have Faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is not won by arguments. Faith is won by an experience of love.
— Tessa Afshars
God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it based on anything we do, and that 'anything' were to collapse, then God's love would crumble as well. But with the God of Jesus no such thing can possibly happen. People who realize this can live freely and to the full.
— Brennan Manning, The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus
It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was not perfectly sure that she would prove an angel after he brought her home. Would he not cut himself off from that particular angel-possibility as decisively as if he went and married some one else? Scepticism, then, is not avoidance of option; it is option of a certain particular kind of risk. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error,-that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
— William James, The Will to Believe
You see, faith means the same thing as the word “trust”, or as I often like to say; “Faith is when someone is holding you over a ledge and you know in your heart that not only will they not let you fall, they’ll pull you up to safety”. You know that the person holding onto you exists. You have very powerful evidence that that person exists, but you still have faith in them. This is the real definition of the word “faith”.
— Evan Minton, Inference To The One True God: Why I Believe In Jesus Instead Of Other Gods
I don’t feel that my faith is threatened by evolution at all. If I were convinced of Darwinian evolution some day, I would just become a Theistic Evolutionist like the guys at BioLogos.
— Evan Minton, Inference To The One True God: Why I Believe In Jesus Instead Of Other Gods
Not everyone rejects Christianity solely on the basis of intellectual doubts. Some people reject it simply because they don’t want it to be true, so they purposefully talk themselves out of believing it.
— Evan Minton, Inference To The One True God: Why I Believe In Jesus Instead Of Other Gods
The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
How could we not believe the Lord would guide us? How could we not have faith? For the foundation had been laid in prayer and sorrow. Since that fearful night, Dad has responded with the almost impossible work of belief. He had burned with repentence as though his own hand had fired the gun. He had laid up prayer as if with a trowel.
— Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
My definition of TheologyMy proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist, researcher and conservative of the Word of God with sensible and measured pursuit of infinite growth, a marriage of the spiritual knowledge (Gnosis), and unutterable love for the faith in constant pursuits and mission for truths with devoutness to prowess faith and love from faith’s vocation and noetic that’s flamed within that gives us the calling (vocation) of theologian. For theology pursues and endless journey of the Lord’s knowledge while maintaining the faith and is the strength hold of creed that manifest purpose, ontology and guardianship of the soul and wisdom, in a relation, a sound mind for divinity. . .
— John Shelton Jones, Awakening Kings and Princes Volume I: Sacred Knowledge to Nourish the Mentality, Support Spiritual Growth, Learning the Light, and Progressing to Become a Master Lover While Embracing Desire
Compromise is the assassin of fellowship with God.
— Mark Hall, Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal
And what god do you serve, then?”“Whichever will grant me good fortune.” “I don’t think gods work that way.” “I don’t think I care.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Faith is then a choice we make, making faith an attitude that leads to action.
— Reid A. Ashbaucher, How To Understand And Live Your Faith
The purpose of my faith is to bring me hope without fear. This is not only beneficial for the life to come, but also in this present life as well.
— Reid A. Ashbaucher, How To Understand And Live Your Faith
To live without faith is to live without hope.
— Reid A. Ashbaucher, How To Understand And Live Your Faith
Alice released a long exhale. "Showtime.
— Elizabeth Goddard, Wilderness Reunion
They are faithful, even if we are not.
— Ashlee Willis, A Wish Made of Glass
There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.
— Edwin Mullins, The Pilgrimage to Santiago
If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too ‘poor’ to be able to ‘pour’ back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? ... This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate.
— Marilynne Robinson
Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
— Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook
When you are doing all that you know to do yet all hell is breaking out around you, Hold onto your faithdon't you dare break! You're on the edge of your breakthroughNow is the time to praise your way through! God has already made a way for you.Remain prayerful & thankful!
— Sanjo Jendayi
F.U.R FOCUS-URGENCY-RESPONSIBILITY--- As a team you can move mountains without any effort, simply because of our combined faith and commitment!
— Katlego Semusa
Why I love Jesus Christ
—  He saved me from my sins.
Glory to the the Great God!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ah, Lord God be merciful to us all!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Glory to the Great God of wonders!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is there any good works without grace?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Before you believe in doubt; before you journey with doubt; before you go the way of doubt, first, go to faith with faith and seek permission from faith.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
The focus is faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law
— John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
A true conversion is always only between a man and God.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken