Quotes About Faith

Jesus gave the key to the creative use of mind and to the conscious manifestation of form when he said, "Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."4

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

That one step is called surrender. I do not mean to say that you will become happy in such a situation. You will not. But fear and pain will become transmuted into inner peace.

The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

Ese mal uso da lugar a creencias y afirmaciones absurdas y a engaños del ego, tales como "Mi o nuestro Dios es el único Dios verdadero y tu Dios es falso" o la famosa afirmación de Nietzsche "Dios ha muerto". La palabra Dios se ha convertido en un concepto cerrado.

Love and do what you will," said St. Augustine.

This, too, will pass...

La prueba no está en los argumentos intelectuales sino en ser tocado en alguna medida por lo sagrado.

The eternal, the infinite, and unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as "my god" or "our god.

conscious manifestation of form when he said, "Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."4

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into "death," forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God — because God, too, is no-thing.

Jesus's statement that "your whole body will be filled with light

You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future — nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

Your instincts are telling you something. Trust them and listen to them.

Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.

All things work together for good to them that love God.

A child dies two days after birth. Her parents cried out for help, and hundreds of friends cried out too. Might there still have been deliverance? Consider that the parents had been delivered from death and the Evil One and that the child belonged to God and would be with him. Those deliverances might not lessen the parents' and friends' grief, but they do mean that the community can grieve with hope.

On this side of the cross misery persists, but the scales are tipped in favor of joy.

Why would anyone entertain Satan's questions about God's goodness when everything is good? But a few bumps in the road, and our knowledge of God seems fragile, and that's what Satan is counting on.

If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant.

Sometimes is [God loves me more than I think] still allows us and our need to be at the center of the world, and God becomes our psychic errand boy given the task of inflating our self esteem.

Emotional suffering needs spiritual encouragement.