Faith Quotes - Page 81

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

[Salvation] is a life-changing experience when it happens, and if our life isn’t changed by it, then it either didn’t happen at all or we are so caught up in this world, spending so much time, effort, and emotion on the red circle, that we are ignoring the permanent, eternal, gigantic, blue part of the map in which we will forever be.

We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions.The first thing we must understand is that we are psychologically asleep.It is very difficult for us to be conscious of ourselves. We are not very aware. We must come to recognize that we do not pay attention.

If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.

Sometimes, we just have to have enough faith to practice patience and not let our impatience morph into doubt.

Every challenge you conquer, will make you courageous.

To attach to a goal is to mentally protect it because of a negative story running at the back of your mind. To surrender is to tap into your faith and believe that something bigger than you can do the work without the interruption of your human condition.

When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up

Let go of all your hurt and be healed.

Start and end your day with God.Seek His presence and blessing daily.

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.

Stop looking for that person you were in the past. She has changed. Look for the person she has grown into. She is wiser and stronger than than ever before. Don't go back to who you were. Cherish who you are." --Without a Voice by Chris Pepple

Just as we are, we come to Christ Jesus, He will change us to his image.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

Trust in God, the only wise God.

Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks.

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

Live a life in the light of love.

Every morning is a fresh breath and blessings.

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.

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

For now, I look to God, for I know He will respond to my questions. For I believe, in the deepest part of my heart, that He shall truly bring us into a frame of mind where we may hear His greatest responses . . . Perhaps not the final answers, but at the very least, the next response we need.

Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.

May we graciously accept our responsibility.

Love is divinity within us.

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

A good understanding is to keep the great law.

You have great talents. Aim for God best for your life.

I don't fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.

Life is about learning to fly, when everyone says you will fall.

How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us). These are the tow reasons we hid from other people, even our friends, even our parents, and the tow reasons we should never hide from God.

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.

Today’s temple of truth will become the prison of tomorrow.

Sophie Bach from The Maker:You’re a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process—nothing more?

Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.

Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s reserve for development, for the day that this country shall be free. Your late father was an intelligent man. He was even more than that. He was a sage. He once said to me that the intelligent Bamilekés are those who have sought a better future for themselves and for their families in British Cameroons. He was right. They have not been brainwashed as much as their francophone brothers have. If he were alive today, I am sure he would have judged that the intelligent Cameroonians are those who have sought refuge out of Cameroon.

But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory.

When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Faith has size.

My hope is my joy.

Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel.

Life is a sacred journey, which you have to, travel on your own.

Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

The gift of life is the most valuable wealth.

In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I'm going to do.

Victory occurs when you let God fight your battles.

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?

But I cannot accept a vision of You as an engineer who spends His days maintaining the machine of morality. I cannot take the idea of You as an optimizer, introducing evil into human affairs in an attempt to create the best of all possible worlds. I cannot bear this cold mathematician's God who sees all the universe as nothing more than an elaborate problem to be solved. Such a world is a world with no meaning, one in which one history is no more or less preferable to any other.

Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.