Faith
Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step. - Joni Erickson Tada
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller
Childlike faith focuses on our Heavenly Father - not on our fears.
God is the light that shows me the way, for there is nothing that God cannot do.
Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible. - Sir William Osler
Where hope grows, miracles blossom. - Elna Rae
God is even kinder than you think. - St Theresa
No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you. - Helen Steiner Rice
I would rather err on the side of faith than on the side of doubt. - Robert Schuller
Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore
When the heart weeps for what is lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found. - Sufi Aphorism
Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise. - Charles Spurgeon
Prayer releases the power and wisdom of God into a situation.
Calmness is the way we show that we are trusting in God.
Miracles happen every day.
Every day do your best. God will do the rest
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. - Abraham Maslow
This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator. - Meister Eckart
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me." - Norman Vincent Peale
Put your confidence in God and not in man.
The Lord will either calm your storm . . . or allow it to rage while He calms you.
Anything God asks us to do he supplies us with the energy and grace to do.
It is such comfort to drop the tangles of life into God's hands and leave them there.
The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God. - Emmett Fox
Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.
Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive. - Meister Eckhart
When God calls you to do something, he enables you to do it. - Robert Schuller
When we let go of fear, only then can we gracefully move from what was into the miracle of what can be.
Have faith, knowing tomorrow will hold the blessings of God. - Robert Schuller
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God. - Robert Burns
My job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.
Fear ends where faith begins.
Live by Faith - One day at a time.
Cast your cares on the Lord for He cares.
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
Draw nigh unto God and he will draw nigh unto you.
Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. - William Newton Clark
Thank you, Lord, for the sheer joy of wanting to get up and help the world go around. - Roxie Gibson
Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is tainting your mind and steals your joy.
You can't have joy without peace, and there is no peace without God.
Those who have faith need no explanation, for those who have no faith, no explanation is possible.
Fear knocked at the door and faith answered. No one was there. - Old English Proverb
No God, No Peace.
If you have a song of faith in your heart, it will be heard by the look on your face.
Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best, and you live it best, by holding it with very open hands. - Less O'Donavan
If the only prayer you ever say in life is "Thank you". . . that is enough. - Meister Eckert
We are at peace with God and all mankind when we hear the silence and do not feel alone.
The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty. - J. I. Packer
There are only two ways to live . . . one is as though nothing is a miracle . . . the other is as if everything is. - Albert Einstein
Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared. - Mother Teresa
Miracles are not a contradiction of nature. They are only in contradiction of what we know of nature. - St. Augustine
Eating lunch with a friend, hearing the rain patter against the window. There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. - Christina Rossetti
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you. - Barbara Johnson
As you practice counting your blessings, you will find that your faith is being suddenly revitalized. - Robert Schuller
God moves in mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm. - William Cowper
If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around. - Gloria Gaither
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it. - Madeleine L. Engle
God's fingers can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness. - George MacDonald
Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself. - Barbara Johnson
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Faith is no irresponsible shot in the dark. It is a responsible trust in God, who knows the desires of your hearts, the dreams you are given, and the goals you have set. He will guide your paths right. - Robert Schuller
Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always. - Catherine of Sienna
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning. - Karl Barth
When thou prayers, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart.
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. Touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are sacred moments and life itself is grace. - Frederick Buechner
Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. - Dr. Robert Schuller
To have faith in the Creator to provide all your needs and desires is to be borne along through the difficulties of life as on wings of air.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. -J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13) -Various (Holy Bible: King James Version -LDS Edition)
I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence. -Edgar Allan Poe
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Teresa
The entire world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. -J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. -Max Lucado (He Still Moves Stones)
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. -Joni Eareckson Tada (The God I Love)
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -Friedrich Nietzsche
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. -Sa Ren Kierkegaard
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. -Francis Of Assisi
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better
Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labor in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . . -Charles H. Spurgeon
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. -Anonymous (Holy Bible)
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. -Helen Keller
Do not be afraid; our fate
cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. -Dante Alighieri (Inferno)
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. -Ezra Taft Benson
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith knows that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. -Edward Teller
With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of
the Pledge of Allegiance?" -Jay Leno
When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
and your plans are upset and your world falls apart,
Remember God's ready and waiting to share.
The burden you find much too heavy to bear--
So with faith, "Let Go and Let GOD" lead your way
into a brighter and less troubled day. - Helen Steiner Rice
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. -Roger Caras
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness. -John Bytheway (When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything)
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. -Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. -Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason)
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief. - Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination)
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. -H.L. Mencken
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. -Stanislaw Lem
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man. -Sam Harris
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. -Matthew Henry (Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume)
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God. -William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist)
Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that. -Mark Helprin
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, and don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. —Jon Katz
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy. —Elizabeth Gilbert
[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop. —C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)
...there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is. —Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much. —Lisa Wingate
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
(I John 4:7-8) —Anonymous (Holy Bible: New Testament: The King James Version)
(I John 4:7-8) —Anonymous (Holy Bible: New Testament: The King James Version)
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her. —John McCain (Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir)
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. —Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody... —Bob Dylan
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. —Various (The Teachings of Jesus: The Holy Bible King James Version)
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest. —Sarah Ban Breathnach
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. —Louie Giglio
I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. — Paulo Coelho
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. —Franz Kafka
If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time. —Gary Parker
I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail those you cannot help. Have faith in God and remember that He will is His own way and in His own time complete what we so poorly attempt. Often we do not achieve for others the good that we intend but achieve something, something that goes on from our effort. Good is an overflow. Where we generously and sincerely intend it, we are engaged in a work of creation which may be mysterious even to ourselves - and because it is mysterious we may be afraid of it. But this should not make us draw back. God can always show us, if we will, a higher and a better war; and we can only learn to love by loving. Remember that all our failures are ultimately failures in love. Imperfect love must not be condemned and rejected but made perfect. The way is always forward, never back. —Iris Murdoch (The Bell)
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible) —Abraham Lincoln
When you are down to nothing, God is up to something. It is up to you to reach out to find what God is up to for you. —Robert Schuler
Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end. —Stephen King (Pet Sematary)
He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should have been, there was only wild foliage of ferns and flowers. There was a small, smiling face drawn over the heart.
To find the balance you want," Ketut spoke through his translator, "this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God. — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. —Jaroslav Pelikan (The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities)
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: An Entertainment)
Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school. —Craig Thompson (Blankets)
All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss. —Whitney Otto (How to Make an American Quilt)
The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludge bags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity. —Randy Alcorn (Lord Foulgrin's Letters)
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. —Reinhold Niebuhr
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. —Bertrand Russell
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground. —Randy Alcorn (Edge of Eternity)
It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too. —Sharon Kay Penman (When Christ and His Saints Slept)
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
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. —C.S. Lewis
Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in me proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized inhumanity on a greater scale than I had conceived possible. Faith in me was important, and remains important to my self esteem. But I discovered in prison that faith in myself alone, sep0arate from other, more important allegiances, was ultimately no match for the cruelty that human beings could devise when they were entirely unencumbered by respect for the God given dignity of man. This is the lesson I learned in prison. It is, perhaps, the most important lesson I have ever learned. —John McCain (Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir)
With God, nothing is impossible; and He can display His strength through you.
There's nothing we can do for God in our own power.
O Lord, let that which seems naturally impossible to me become possible through Your grace. - Thomas à Kempis
In all conflicts, let us remember that with God nothing is impossible; and as we read and hear His promises, let us turn them into prayers. - Matthew Henry
When you are facing the impossible, you can count on the God of the impossible. - Amy Carmichael
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God. - E. M. Bounds
You cannot bring a burden too heavy for God to lift or a problem too hard for Him to solve or a request too big for Him to answer. God does things no one else can do. - Michael Guido
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees,
And looks to (God) alone;
Laughs at life's impossibilities,
And cries, "It shall be done! - Charles Wesley
Our faith is not really tested until God asks us to bear what seems unbearable, do what seems unreasonable, and expect what seems impossible. - Warren Wiersbe
The word "impossible" isn't found in heaven's dictionaries. Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.
Patience with others is love, patience with self is hope, and patience with God is faith. -Adel Bestavros
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It always seems impossible until it is done. –twiquotations
Faith makes things possible not easy. -Board of Wisdom
Fear can keep us up all night long but faith makes one fine pillow. –twiquotations
Nothing is impossible to the faithful one. -Codrut Magheru
Sometimes you just to have believed. To be certain, without reason. To have faith in the unseen. -Liz Betrey
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