Quotes About Faith

Religion is hard. You either see Jonah in the belly of the whale or you don't, my dark sister. It's all on the inside.

Catholic School–Induced Conscience (CSIC)

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

when all looks the darkest, God works his greatest miracles if you have faith.

we won't borrow trouble—not when we have enough to see us through the day.

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent.

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive.

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility.

There's a biblical saying that translates roughly as 'First you will do, then you will understand.' Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive. The transfer of words into action, the freedom of it, made me want to carry the action outside the therapy room and into my life.

The future is hope. Where's the hope if you already know what happens? What are you living for then? What are you striving for?

I leaned my back against an oak Thinking it was a trusty tree. But first it bent, And then it broke And let me down as my love did me. —"The Water Is Wide," traditional folk song

She believes that her daughter was in agony and that she chose not to suffer; she needs to believe that through her death Kim now lives on a higher plane. Why else are flowers so beautiful? she says to me. why is the sky such a perfect shade of blue? There has to be more than the here and now.

the secret to 'doing it all' is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the 'all' He has given us to do and doing all of THAT.

Courage isn't a feeling that you wait for. Courage is doing when you don't have courage. Courage is doing it scared.

We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can.

The release comes when first you realize you are indeed hopelessly inadequate, and then you realize for this you have God! You can't; He can! You are inadequate; He isn't. How

God is working on two fronts all the time. As He works to transform society, He works to transform the transformers!

Here's how it works. God transports us to a situation. There is no such thing as happenstance in the life of a child of God. His intent is to use fallible people to give out His infallible truth to a world living in error. He wants to use weak people who love and obey Him to transform the society to which they have been transported. Then, as we tell others, our own lives are changed in the process.

And just because she was crossing her fingers didn't mean her wish would come true.

The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. Such a cool paradox. He said.

This was not how she'd envisioned the day going when she got up this morning and made that bargain with God, the one where she promised to be a better person if he gave her a whole day where she didn't have to face anything from her past. But God had just reneged on the deal. Which meant she didn't have to be a better person…

Whatever you need… Always.

I've got this.

Pretend you still believe I'm that superhero