Quotes About Faith

Just relax and trust the process.

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.

The power of God is within me. The grace of God surrounds me.

as soon as you give it all up you can have it all

Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.

you base your faith on experience, your faith is

Faith is not a belief. Beliefs are in the head. Faith is in the heart. Faith comes from within you. You cultivate it by opening your spiritual heart and quieting your mind until you feel your identity with your deeper Self. That opening to the deeper Self, when you have quieted your mind. comes through grace. The qualities of that Self are peace, joy, compassion, wisdom, and love.

When you experience fear or are unsure about your situation, there's a beautiful and very powerful mantra you can say: "The power of God is within me. The grace of God surrounds me." Repeat it to yourself or to a loved one in need. It will protect you. Experience the power of it. It's like a solid steel shaft that goes through the top of your head right down to the base of your being. Grace will surround you like a force field.

When someone asked Maharaj-ji how to meditate, he said, "Meditate the way Christ meditated. . . . He lost himself in love.

Maharajji invited a famous pundit to come to Kainchi and recite the Shrimad Bhagavatam. This man was used to reciting before large and very receptive crowds, and he complained to Maharajji that on this occasion he had to recite to only a few illiterate villagers. Maharajji gently rebuked him and said, "Don't worry. Hanumanji is listening.

Not my but Thy will, O Lord.

Rumi, the Persian mystic: "I died as stone, and rose again as plant. I died as plant, and became an animal. I died as animal, and was born a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more shall I die as man, to soar with the angels. But even from angelhood, I must pass on. For all is change, except the face of God.

About the miracle babas Maharajji would say, "What is this? This is all foolishness." He could do miracles, but the greatest miracle was that he could turn one's heart and mind toward God, as he did for me.

Don't grieve too much. This hour of parting is the hardest; the years will pass before you know they have come and gone. They will pass as night does in sleep, and I will return to you.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

god contradicts his own perfection if he can be reached, touched, disturbed, or in any way changed from it by anything in this material world below.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis

A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.

God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?

If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

Real gold fears no fire