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Quotes About Faith

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today
~ Jan Karon
think th' whole point of life is to know God, and be able to accept the way things turn out.
~ Jan Karon
Rest. Rest. Rest in God's love," Madame Guyon had written. "The only work you are required now to do is to give your most intense attention to His still, small voice within.
~ Jan Karon
Remember our good verse from Jeremiah, 'I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
~ Jan Karon
While most people understandably took family for granted, he took it for grace.
~ Jan Karon
Thank you God for so many dreams coming true. Thank you for everything. Even confusion and hard decisions.
~ Jan Karon
He leaned against the mantel and stretched, breathing the prayer he learned from his grandmother: Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.
~ Jan Karon
Let the peace of this place surround you as you sit or kneel quietly. Let the hurry and worry of your life fall away. You are God's child. He loves you and cares for you, and is here with you now and always. Speak to Him thoughtfully, give yourself time for Him to bring things to mind.
~ Jan Karon
Lord, give me the words, the wisdom, the heart for this, Your will be done. . .
~ Jan Karon
I said, Thy will be done." "That's the prayer that never fails.
~ Jan Karon
Fear is one of the Enemy's deadliest strategies.
~ Jan Karon
You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doin' to watch the Almighty go about his business.
~ Jan Karon
Then he prayed for (...) and all the rest who made up his world.
~ Jan Karon
God answers all our heartfelt petitions. He may answer no, or yes, or wait, or maybe. Yet there's one prayer for which he has only one answer, and the answer is yes.' 'Tell me,' she said, sharp. 'Thy will be done.
~ Jan Karon
Thank you for the joy and the sorrow he brings. Be with him always, to surround him with right influences, and when tests of any kind must come, give him wisdom and strength to act according to your will. Look over his mother, also, and the other children, wherever they are. Feed and clothe them, keep them from harm, and bring them one day into a full relationship with your Son.
~ Jan Karon
I try to wait for Him to make the darkness light, then grow afraid and try to create the light on my own.
~ Jan Karon
Don't worry about anything," Paul had written to the church at Philippi, "but in everything, by prayer and supplication, make your requests known unto God. And the peace that passes all understanding will fill your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
~ Jan Karon
One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. When you let God fill you with His love and forgiveness, the things you think you desperately want to hold on to start falling away  . . . and we hardly notice their passing.
~ Jan Karon
She was going to have to learn to trust God. Completely
~ Jan Karon
In everything give thanks. That was the lifeboat in any crisis. Over and over again he had learned this, and over and over again, he had to be reminded.
~ Jan Karon
Lord, if this is Your answer, then You've got to help me do this thing. I know how You feel about fear, and I agree. But I'm scared stiff and You know it, and I'rn needing a generous hand-out of grace.
~ Jan Karon
Julian of Norwich said as she suffered a devastating illness of her own: 'All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.' You may know that during her suffering she had gazed into the face of God, and out of that mighty encounter this truth was rendered for you, for all of us, for all time...
~ Jan Karon
Maybe you done stepped aroun' th' Lord an' tryin' to lead th' way.
~ Jan Karon
God answers all our heartfelt petitions. He may answer no, or yes, or wait, or maybe. Yet there's one prayer for which he has only one answer, and the answer is yes. 'Thy will be done.' There is a caveat. One must pray it with a surrendered heart.
~ Jan Karon