Quotes About Faith

You will treat yourself and others according to the way you think God feels about you.

Any time my walk with God gets hard, I know that I am no longer walking in the spirit but have begun living out of my soul.

So often, well-meaning Christians pray for a visitation from God, but what He really wants is a habitation with us. He doesn't want to come into our lives as a guest while we are on our best behavior around Him until He leaves.

What reveals a genuine love for God is my ability to convince my family and others of my love for them.

However, if one reads the verses carefully, I believe that it tells of how Job's soul - the bitter, angry part which wanted to curse God - was wrenched from him and became a being of its own.

Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up.

Sister Katherine smiled. 'Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.

In times like these And times like those What will be will be And so it goes

This book was written with the hope that it will] save someone who wants to give up, for there is always a new life waiting.

Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on? —Tom Waits

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness. But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN

wisdom? As the Zen texts explain, "To live in trusting

True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

Being an artist means ripening like a tree which . . . stands confidently in the storm of winter not afraid that summer may not come. It always comes.

Plant your seed of trust. It will grow in its season.

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over the community of monks and nuns. The Dharma was to guide them. So for us, there is no blind belief or blind faith in Buddhism. We simply believe enough in the possibility of liberation and we are wise enough to see the suffering in our existence to have the faith to begin practice.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

We must trust everyone and no-one