c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life...God gives us time. And who has time for God?Which makes no sense.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
— Daniel C. Dennett
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
— Teresa of Ávila
Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.
— A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.
— Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis: On the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church's Life and Mission
The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.
— Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin
Have faith in your skills. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...
— Milan Kundera
Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..."--Ivan Karamazov
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace
In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?
— Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun.
— Sarah Holman
Managing stress is about controlling the way you respond to events and having an open mind about the things that stress you. Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give you peace and to help you with your problems
— Michele Woolley, God's Favor - Breath Of Heaven
Lihat, ini Arok, yang tetap mempertahankan Tumapel. Dia dan pasukannya akan mempertahankannya sampai titik darah terakhir. Bukan karena imbalan uang, emas dan perak dan singgasana. Hanya karena kesetiaan pada janji.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Arok Dedes
Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for!
— John Paul Warren
Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.
— Shannon L. Alder
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
— Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.
— Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.
— Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen. (James 5:13-16)
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
— John Calvin
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself
—  my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?
— Neil Gaiman, Fables and Reflections
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.
— Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year
Love only fails when we fail to love.
— Tyler Edwards, Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back Into the Body of Christ
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying, 'Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I am voicing in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.' There is a reason that we refer to leaps-of-faith, because the decision to consent to any notion of divinity is a mighty jump from the rational over to the unknowable, and I don't care how diligently scholars of every religion will try to sit you down with their stacks of books and prove that their faith is rational; it isn't. If they were rational, it wouldn't be - by definition - faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face first and full speed into the dark.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.
— Joel Osteen
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.
— Tariq Ramadan
What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you say "I believe there's an all-powerful force of love in the universe that connects us all, and I have no evidence of that but I believe it in my heart," then it's perfectly okay to believe in your heart that Sharon Tate deserves to die. It's perfectly okay to believe in your heart that you need to fly planes into buildings for Allah.
— Penn Jillette
Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
— Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
— C.G. Jung
Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
— Søren Kierkegaard
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light,even though for the moment you do not see.
— Bill Wilson
It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Matthew 10:34“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptised.
— Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.
— Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.
— Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
— Joni Eareckson Tada, Suffering: Making Sense of Suffering 5pk
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
— Beth Moore, Praying God's Word: Breaking Free From Spiritual Strongholds
To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, " she said. "But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you.
— Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
— Gregory Peck
My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive.
— Cindy Martinusen Coloma, Caleb + Kate
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
— William Blake
A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.
— J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?
— Mother Teresa, Heart of Joy
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.
— Søren Kierkegaard
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…
— Knut Hamsun, Mysteries
Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward...just patience and faith.
— Cristina Marrero
Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight. 
— David Wong
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Although, I admit, I desire,Occasionally, some backtalkFrom the mute sky, I can't honestly complain:A certain minor light may stillLean incandescentOut of kitchen table or chairAs if a celestial burning tookPossession of the most obtuse objects now and then -- 
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
there comes a timewhen you have to let goall the wordsall the teachingand trust the infinite
— Billy Doyle, The Mirage of Separation
Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr
— Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley
We see them as they cannot, will not, see each other--we see his heart in the way he looks at her; we see her soul calling out for his every touch. It would be so easy if they could only see inside each other as we can.And yet, there is beauty in the way they find each other: slowly, in a fragile dance of sidelong glances and accidental touches. To see them come together, souls binding without knowing each other as we do, without being certain of what the other's heart holds, is to learn something new...Faith.
— Amie Kaufman, Their Fractured Light
To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?
— Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
— William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.
— Jaroslav Pelikan, The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
I'm not a Wiccan. I'm not big on churches of any kind, despite the fact that I've spoken, face-to-face, with an archangel of the Almighty.But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine.Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others--even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.Faith is a power of its own, and one even more elusive and difficult to define than magic.
— Jim Butcher, Changes
With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers.
— Yisroel Meir Ha-Cohen
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
— Dorothy   Thompson
...and when is enough proof enough?
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Find what you want. I will find you.
— Lloyd Alexander, Westmark
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
— Desmond Tutu
A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this IS grace.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Faith—is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not—Too slender for the eyeIt bears the Soul as boldAs it were rocked in SteelWith Arms of Steel at either side—It joins—behind the VeilTo what, could We presumeThe Bridge would cease to beTo Our far, vacillating FeetA first Necessity.
— Emily Dickinson
I love you,” was his reply. “I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
He had in those days imagined himself capable of extraordinary heroisms and endurances which would make the girl he loved forget the awkward hands and the spotty chin of adolescence. Everything had seemed possible. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities of which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time form a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind, until one day to your own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in.
— Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear
Some people are angels sent to you by God at your weakest moments.
— Megan Wilson
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...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: --I move not without Thy knowledge!
— Epictetus
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.
— Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
We don't look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty they contain. The inspiration they give us. Even though stars are the scars of the universe we don't see them as these broken pieces of gaseous matter, we see them as these majestic astrological blessings that give hope to billions. What if you saw yourself in that same light, or better yet what if you saw others in a similar way.
— Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity
When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless
— Max Lucado, Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
— Evelyn Underhill
How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down.Breath a whisper, she came closer and tied one wrist to the headboard. The cat growled but didn't try to make him wrench free."Because just looking at you gives me the most extreme pleasure I've ever felt.""Christ, baby, tie me up before you start talking like that.
— Nalini Singh, Visions of Heat
God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.
— Shannon L. Alder
Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
— Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory
— Joyce Meyer
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling
God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.
— Patrick Carman, Thirteen Days to Midnight
Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard.
— Beth Revis, A Million Suns
God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn't finished yet!
— Shannon L. Alder
And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.
— Kathleen McGowan, The Poet Prince
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer
—  that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...
Science only goes so far, then comes God.- Noah Calhoun-
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
— Thomas Aquinas
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
— Desmond Tutu
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)
— Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
— Dave Eggers
God wants to dance with us. The goal of dancing is NOT to learn the steps. The goal of dancing is to enjoy your partner. We learn the steps but only so we don't have to look down at our feet. We are free to look into the eyes of the one we love.
— Nicole Johnson, Fresh Brewed Life A Stirring Invitation To Wake Up Your Soul
Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?
— Katharine Hepburn
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able t love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.
— Susan Meissner, The Shape of Mercy
Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.
— Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
faith gaped at him"how the hell did you do this?" He looked at her as if she'd asked the dumbest question in history. "I'm brilliant.
— Dianne Sylvan, Queen of Shadows
We all go through hard times in life. It’s a part of being alive and it's the reality we all have to deal with. There are times we forget our value as a person because we are so blinded with these thoughts of loneliness, emptiness and ego. Somewhere along the road we become numbed with all the frustrations and dissatisfaction. But life itself isn't always about darkness and sadness, Life is also filled with colors and that makes it beautiful. Along this path of darkness there's always light waiting to be seen by our daunted hearts. Our heart is gifted to see this light. It may be hiding behind those circumstances that we encounter; in a stranger we just met at an unexpected place; a family who has been always there but you just ignored because of your imperfect relationship with them; it might be a long time friend you have or a friend you just met. Open your heart and you will see how blessed you are to have them all in your life. Sometimes they are the light that shines your path in some dark phases of life. Don't lose hope
— Chanda Kaushik
You’ll only fall if you doubt your balance.
— Willa Okati, By Your Side
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!
— Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away".
— Michele Woolley, God's Favor - Breath Of Heaven
The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.
— Alexander Theroux, Darconville’s Cat
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
— R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith
Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)
— Robin R. Meyers, Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.
— Os Guinness, God in the Dark
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.
— Brigham Young
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
What is seen is not the TruthWhat is cannot be saidTrust comes not without seeingNor understanding without wordsThe wise comprehends with knowledgeTo the ignorant it is but a wonderSome worship the formless GodSome worship his various formsIn what way He is beyond these attributesOnly the Knower knowsThat music cannot be writtenHow can then be the notesSay Kabir, awareness alone will overcome illusion.
— Kabir
Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)
— Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Hardships are the Lord's greatest blessings to the believer. Without them we would love the Lord only for what He does for us. Our troubles teach us to love Him for who He is." Sister Norton in "The Preacher's Bride
— Jody Hedlund
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")
— Sting, Nothing Like the Sun
The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
— Julia Cameron, Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.lines from Love Vs Destiny...
— Atul Purohit
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.
— James E. Faust
Bombs have kill-radiuses
—  churches should have love-radiuses--anyone within twenty miles of a church should know it.
This is the story of how Dad lived with his lung cancer. But it is much more. Through his illness and the miracles we experienced, I came to see that Dad's was not just a journey. It was a journey home. Home to God. 
— Joseph M. Hanneman, The Journey Home: My Father's Story of Cancer, Faith and Life-Changing Miracles
The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we just don't have people who are doing it.
— Tyler Edwards, Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back Into the Body of Christ
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future. 
— John Piper
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say
—  be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!
While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
— Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.
— J.I. Packer, Knowing God
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?
— Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.
— Os Guinness, God in the Dark
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
— Jimmy Carter
Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
— Joan D. Chittister, God Speaks in Many Tongues: Meditate with Joan Chittister
Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.
— Victoria Schwab, The Unbound
Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
— Terry Brooks, A Princess of Landover
because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
— Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?
— Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
— Ursula Hegi, Floating in My Mother's Palm
I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe as we do. But their ignorance prevents them...we must bear patiently with these people and not use our liberty; since it brings to peril or harm to body or soul...but if we use our liberty unnecessarily, and deliberately cause offense to our neighbor, we drive away the very one who in time would come to our faith. Thus St. Paul circumcised Timothy (Acts 16:3) because simple minded Jews had taken offense; he thought: what harm can it do, since they are offended because of ignorance? But when, in Antioch, they insisted that he out and must circumcise Titus (Gal. 2:3) Paul withstood them all and to spite them refused to have Titus circumcised... He did the same when St. Peter...it happened in this way: when Peter was with the Gentiles he ate pork and sausages with them, but when the Jews came in, he abstained from this food and did not eat as he did before. Then the Gentiles who had become Christians though: Alas! we, too, must be like the Jews, eat no pork, and live according to the law of Moses. But when Paul learned that they were acting to the injury of evangelical freedom, he reproved Peter publicly and read him an apostolic lecture, saying: "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?" (Gal. 2:14). Thus we, too, should order our lives and use our liberty at the proper time, so that Christian liberty may suffer no injury, and no offense be given to our weak brothers and sisters who are still without the knowledge of this liberty.
— Martin Luther
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.
— Julia Cameron, Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.
— Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast
Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.
— Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life
We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities
— Henry B. Eyring
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go.
— Shannon L. Alder
practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how's, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and further distance you from your destination, but will also feed your mind with those fatal seeds of doubt that make failure inevitable" ~ Awaken and Unleash your Victor
— Ogor Winnie Okoye
In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
— Teresa of Ávila
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.
— John D. Caputo, What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church