Faith Quotes - Page 68

Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size, their ability to spout fire, or to crack boulders into splinters with their massive talons. In fact, the only terrifying quality that dragons do not possess is that of existence.Now, the people of this land know about dragons because their leaders have warned them about them. They tell stories about cruel dragons with razor teeth and fiery breath. They recount legends of dragons hunting by night on silent wings. In short, the leaders make sure that the people believe in all the qualities of dragons, including that key quality of existence. And then they control the people — when they need to — with their fear of dragons. The people pay a dragon-slaying tax … everyone stays indoors after dark to avoid being snatched by swooping claws … and nobody ever strays out of bounds for fear of being eaten well and truly up. one. And so it is necessary from time to time to provide evidence: a burnt tree or two, a splintered rock, the mysterious absence of a villager. The population is controlled by the dragons in its collective mind. It’s contrived superstition, and it is possible because the people do not know enough about the way the world works to know that dragons do not exist.

Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality".

Awake my great spirit.

With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge.

It's not a matter of whether you want happiness. We all need peace, love, and happiness. But, if you fail to nurture your spirit, by absorbing all things good and giving attention to the matters of your heart, it will be hard to obtain. It must radiate from inside of you. Then, flow outwardly penetrating everyone around you.

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.

The writer identifies the thought behind every written word.

We were chosen by God’s to be His special possession.

We ought to give each other, a chance to change.

Be strong and courageous, along unfamiliar paths, God will guide you.

Sometimes I really can't express how much I feel, but I can tell for a fact that some past years have been a victorious rollercoaster ride with God in it. Some days colourful, some days black and white, some days faith bigger than a mustard seed, other days I'm filled with blind doubt about what tomorrow holds. But in all of this, I'm beautifully me and constantly running the race through the father's grace

I am overwhelmed by the goodness of God.

You will never know how courageous you are until you are willing to leave your comfort zone to leap into the unknown.

You are capable beyond measure.

[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.

Inner peace comes from the Creator.

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.

A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when it's there.

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

Use your time and your strength for your accomplishments.

We perish because we fail to pray to God.

Seek your higher life, the holy heavenly living.

The key to liberation resides within our very own hands and heart.

When the whispers of fear and doubt start screaming inside of you, turn up the volume of your courage by focusing on your faith, energizing through example, living to learn, and learning to love and be loved better.

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.

Let go of all your worries, embrace hope.

How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.

The risen Christ! Once morefaith is upon us, a jubilant brief keeningwith respite:Obedience, bitter joy,the elements, clouds,winds, louvres where the bellmakes its wild mouths:Holy Rus – into the rain’shorizons, peacock-dyed tail feathers of storm,so it goes on.

The knowledge of God is beginning of wisdom.

There are some things that you experience with God that you'll never be able to articulate this side of heaven.

This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

Are you being obedient, or just martyring yourself for another good cause?

You have to walk with the Creator to find your soul.

We fail to enjoy the sacred moment, when we overwork.

A revived spirit, a renewed soul.

Spending time with God is the greatest treasure.

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

O God let your face shine on us!

The best way to reach your destination is to just keep going until you get there.

I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.

Your trials last as long as your disobedience.

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.

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

Imagination is the core of attraction.

Know will of God and keep to His ways.

It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.

Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on

Embrace the future with enduring hope and faith.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not,, you will remian dry. Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die.

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?But if a spiral, am I going up or down it?How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible.

Patience endurance define the attractiveness of life.

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

Don’t worry, pray!

This life is the only opportunity we will have to worship God in the midst of trials and tests. Heaven will be perfect.

Whatever's got you down is causing a great deal of stress. Pick yourself up and reflect on the positive things about your life. You'd be surprised at how one slingshot of optimism can overturn the deep dark thoughts affecting your mood and making you vulnerable.

True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.

Just hold on to your faith and always be willing to put in the hard work on your own.