Quotes About Faith

It should not surprise us that people cause us troubles, temptations, oppositions and difficulties. We should accept these and bear them for as long as God wishes, and view them as highly beneficial to our spiritual development.

He said that all bodily spiritual disciplines and exercises are useless. All that is needed to bring us to union with God is love. He had pondered this subject much, and concluded that the shortest way to God was to go straight to Him by a continual exercise of love and doing everything for His sake.

stand up for justice, stand up for truth. And lo, I will be with you, even until the end of the world." That voice of Jesus, King recounted, "promised never to leave me, no, never to leave me alone.

An excuse explains why we fell short of expectations after the fact. Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.

The goal in handling dragons is not to destroy them, not merely to disassociate from them, but to make them disciples. Even when that seems an unlikely prospect.

You sent your last letter months ago about the poems you could not write, no words to sing when the president swears that God breathes the psalms of armies in his ear, and flags twirl by the millions to fascinate us like dogs at the dinner table.

Nadie niega que las obras malas no son aceptables a Dios. Eso es obvio. El argumento es que ni siquiera las buenas obras nos hacen aceptables a Dios. Merecen su ira, no su favor.

que se te muera un hijo es alegría. Y creo —ahora, sin más dudas, creo— que todo lo que pueda decir sobre la esclavitud es redundante.

Whether she knew it then or not, she would bore into her own interior, confronting an unknown as wild and uncertain as any new world a missionary had seen. A place as rare as Noah's.

She wanted to think through the questions of faith herself, and she held fast to the belief that heaven on Earth would always outweigh heaven above.

she also shed her youthful need to exaggerate, flaunt her wit, and trot out erudition. She still sent poems to mark an event or nudge someone to write, but her poems became less about what happened and more about what she was thinking. Poems sent in letters . . . rose above daily concerns to larger contemplations on nature, faith, and loss. Images of boats, sailors, and the view from shore appeared frequently.

In reporting on commencements at Amherst and Mount Holyoke, newspapers listed students who read prizewinning essays as well as the number of seniors who had professed their faith.

Even more than studying, listen to the sound of God around you, his mother had urged. It is "the most important of all calls."19 Emily had not received letters from her parents about professing her faith. As they had when she was home, Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson left the subject of Christian conversion to their daughter and did not pressure her.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

There's more God in one hurt child than in all the religions humans ever created.

they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.

Control is a way to get started at something new but eventually it always fails. True success comes where control ends and we step out into thin air. Correk was explaining to you the same thing I am right now. If you don't gain an understanding of how to trust the source of energy from within you, from within the ground you stand on then you will try to control it, limit it.

Despite everything, this is a very good day. Remember that, both of you. There will be horrors in the world that you won't be able to solve without some anguish. But it doesn't mean you can't find moments of joy.

Graveyards are needed before churches.

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other.

Christianity, Judith answered, is a lie of consolation. There's no consolation for what we've already lost — all of us …

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.