Faith Quotes - Page 86

In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.

Hope is an anchor for the soul.

We must stay connected to vine to keep bearing fruits.

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?

In the midst of the darkness of loss, I found light. Admittedly, in those first weeks, it might have been but a single small spark I sensed deep inside of me, but that spark guided me in the twisted, dark journey of grief. As I stumbled over the roots of hopelessness and despair, that light grew to illuminate my path, a path I sometimes felt very alone on. At some point in the journey I’d turned around, and there was God.That is grace.

Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

You picked a man who can read tax code and date a celibate for two years. That's some serious patience. I have zero doubt in my ability to wait you out. I have zero doubt that you're meant to be my girl.

You are destiny for greatness!Realise and pursue this greatness.

Explore the light deep within your soul.

The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the simple....""Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memories of Ubertino, which transform into theological decisions the summons of the simple to poverty." I said."Yes, but as you have seen, this happens too late, and when it happens, the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful, more useful for the Emperor Louis than for a Friar of the Poor Life.

Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

We ain't dependent on social media to reveal our faith and joy. It shows from inside out, for real.

The sacred being speaks at a sacred time.

Look Below and You'll feel Rich,Look Above and You'll feel Poor

Whoever wishes to be free, shall seek the faith of liberty.

The Bible is a life giving word.

The Lord performs mighty wonders and glorious miracles.

He is the light in my life and the rock beneath my feet. (Referring to the Lord Jesus)

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancients’ ultima Thule, the modern explorer’s Point of Relative Inaccessibility, that boreal point most distant from all known lands. There the twin oceans of beauty and horror meet. The great glaciers are calving. Ice that sifted to earth as snow in the time of Christ shears from the pack with a roar and crumbles to water. It could be that our instruments have not looked deeply enough. The RNA deep in the mantis’s jaw is a beautiful ribbon. Did the crawling Polyphemus moth have in its watery heart one cell, and in that cell one special molecule, and that molecule one hydrogen atom, and round that atom’s nucleus one wild, distant electron that split showed a forest, swaying?

To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

If your plan will do more harm than good, then God will not permit it

Making a decision based on fear is like painting a self-portrait of someone else.

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

Mark 9:23 " 'if you can?'" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes." (NIV)

The action you will take today, will define tomorrow.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind faith of the heart.

There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.

Nothing is going to work out unless you step up and make it happen.

Youthful strength is a great blessing.

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Do you know that you can be surrounded by all these blessings, all these relationships, goodness, provisions, opportunities? But if you don't know how to turn the blessing into praise, it will turn into pride and your life will never be filled with joy because your heart has holes in it.

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Stop blaming evil on the Devil, blame it on the Creator of everything, if you don't understand, ask Him or at least hope that someday He will reveal it to you

Every leader must be challenged to educate their followers and capacitate them with knowledge, tools and a voice to champion their own causes and become actively involved in setting the agenda for citizen participation in social transformation. Don’t create a dependent constituency; develop and lead other leaders who demonstrate a growing personal responsibility for their own success as well as for those around them.

We are all capable of being great dreamers. We must awaken the divinity within us.

We rise up every morning and go to bed in the night by grace.

God has been FAITHFUL to me, that why I have FAITH in Him.

Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

Be as fierce as a lion. Let the world hear you roar.

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind.

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

You ought to read, mediate and affirm the living word of God.

There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom

In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved ,until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason.

Life is about discovering your passion and creating a fire to burn inside of you. Let your passion drive you!

Karma is the balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.

Your love brought me closer to God.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.

When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

Use your senses to SEE yourself for who you truly are. SMELL the flowers and become one with nature. TASTE the goodness of God. HEAR the truth. TOUCH the hearts of others with kindness and honest deeds.

It is better to live life with great faith, hope and courage.

As Christians we must realize there are millions of people in the world (indeed, within the Christian faith) who do not live by our worldview, and we must learn how to interact with them, love them, and tolerate them.