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Quotes About Faith

A God she visits in church feels less disruptive than one who leads her life. The God of organized religion makes little impact on the real world of her day-to-day existence.
~ Jan David Hettinga
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." —C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
~ Jan David Hettinga
In fact, we can turn faith into attempts to cut deals or harness God with our agendas, ambitions, and priorities. Our religious creativity amounts to keeping our kingdom and still trying to participate in God's kingdom at the end.
~ Jan David Hettinga
God's activity in our lives and in our world is self-evident if we choose to remember, recognize, and credit it. What has God already done? That's the key question.
~ Jan David Hettinga
A person had to learn to come to terms with the fate determined for him by God. It would do no good to grumble that one would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Instead one had to try to make the best of the situation; that was the only way to fulfill God's plans.
~ Jan Guillou
Do we not give the Lord the greatest promises in the most dire moments?
~ Jan Guillou
A short time later he spoke to Brother Lucien, who vehemently rejected the idea in fright.
~ Jan Guillou
no one could see whether he was praying or sleeping, although the latter was more likely.
~ Jan Guillou
en el Cantar de los Cantares, 8, 6-8.
~ Jan Guillou
there's nothing more important than making a faith reasonable
~ Jan Guillou
Erlend also thought that he would undoubtedly make Father Henri very happy with this story, and that his industriousness and exactitude in carrying out this task might also shorten his wait to be admitted as a full brother in the Cistercian order.
~ Jan Guillou
a dream is Lord's gift which we're obligated to manage well.
~ Jan Guillou
the Lord's paths often transpire the human's reason.
~ Jan Guillou
The road to Jerusalem at the beginning is winding, my dear, dear Arn.
~ Jan Guillou
Everything is permitted in a fight with the devil.
~ Jan Guillou
Further, it is evident that if pope or other superior command the priest not to preach, who is disposed to do so (as has been said), or the rich not to give alms, the inferior ought not to obey. Wherefore, depending on this command of the Lord, I have not obeyed Pope Alexander's command in regard to not preaching and hence will humbly bear excommunication,1 confident that I will secure to myself the benediction of my God.
~ Jan Hus
Therefore, blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has hidden the way of truth from the wise and prudent and revealed it unto simple laymen and little priests who choose rather to obey God than men, who in acts generically good and acts neutral have the life of Christ before their eyes and obey prelates so far as these acts, modified by circumstances, can be reasonably put into practice for edification through the imitation of Christ.
~ Jan Hus
Veritas Omnia Vincit
~ Jan Hus
After bad times come good times or returns but always sunshine will be shine between the rains and storms
~ Jan Jansen
You Don't Have to Worry About Trusting Other People — If You Trust Yourself
~ Jan Jansen
Even when our Life is Full of Problems there will always be a Little bit sunshine of Happiness.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Without Freedom and Trust there is Nothing to Discover.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
When we are straight we never have to be scare from the darkness, because the sun will always shine in our Heart.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
The moment we are thinking something is impossible it happen to Us.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches