Quotes About Faith

Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own.

The thought of a king who can determine not only what life his people lead but even the nature of the God they worship makes me shiver.

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He's coming for you, is all she says. This is how he always does it. He's coming for you, Kat, and I don't know how to save you. I'm packing Bibles and I'm burning papers, but they know you have been reading and writing, and they are changing the law ahead of me. I can't make sure you obey the law because they are changing it faster than we can obey.

You create the results in life that you believe you deserve. —DR. PHIL MCGRAW

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Wifehood, the house, a family they are woman's traditional concern and each in its way represents one of the other great three- faith, hope, charity - which St. Paul sets down as the virtues of earth. (For how can one rear a family without faith? Or build a roof without hope? Or remain a proper wife without charity?) They are life's most vital elements and no ordered world can endure without them.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Within human luck is divine intentionality.

They say that the spiritual path is straight and narrow, but I used to wonder about that. I used to think that the spiritual path was about being good. It was hard to be good because there were only a few ways of being good. I have since learned the opposite. The spiritual path is straight and narrow because all it takes is moving into a lie to make you absolutely step off of it.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

Non era stato lui lo sconfitto, ma la giustizia: quella umana almeno, perchè in quella divina credeva e sperava fermamente. E lo disse al giudice: Vedrà,signor giudice! Quello che non ha potuto fare la legge, lo farà un'altra mano!

God exists only if adored Time is nothing if one has not dreamed (Painting)

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.