Quotes About Faith

images. What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way.

Except God don't create accidents. We only think there are accidents because we don't know what God has in mind.

Most of the time when we got a tough row to plow, the Good Lord makes us fall a little short and puts another mule in the pasture. You don't never know whether you're the blind mule or the deaf mule, but you're always one or the other.

Sometimes you need that soft place to fall. That's your family, your faith. The stuff that doesn't change when everything else does.

We can never really know, except in hindsight, how prayers will be answered.

Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.

Confidence is half the battle. You have to believe things will go according to plan, until events prove otherwise.

I never thought to ask her name, Father, but you know the little mulberry girl as you know each sparrow of the field. You are the white berry that removes the stain.

When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.

when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

She said every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.

The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They'd

The opposite of getting your hopes up is not harboring any,

That's how the grievin' becomes after a time. You've tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected, your life always a quilt with a dark patch or two. The Good Lord uses those to show off the bright colors, I think.

Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

feel that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading. But

Maybe not everyone got the mom who baked cupcakes and showed up at all the school parties. There weren't enough of those to go around, so maybe God used other people, like Mrs. Lora and J. Norm, to make sure you learned how to shell a purple hull pea or find Saturn in the night sky.

The truth was, I yearned, in a soul-deep way, to be Sarra. To 'feel' that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading.

Some things just are, because they are. Because God made them that way.

Life happens, Lindsey. It just......does. the fact that you didn't plan something doesn't mean it's going to end in disaster. Let loose a little bit before you kill yourself. have a little faith.

Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you're the one in charge

What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.

know what to do. He'll calm Briny's wildness, push the

Fear got faster feet than truth, sometime.