Quotes About Faith

Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.

I believe in love Nicholas Davies - Earl of Aberdare

God has used those tough times to make me stronger to help me grow spiritually

God's people need to invade the enemy's camp with all diligence, confidence, and assurance. We can take back everything Satan has stolen from us and our households. It doesn't belong to the devil. He is a thief, and we demand that he give it all back now!

Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.

I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.

I may be furious and sad about what happened with us, but that doesn't make me believe that what we had wasn't real. And it doesn't make me believe that I won't find something that real again.

Don't never depend on somebody else to take care of you, sugar. Trust in the Lord, and then you just take care of yourself, and things will work out fine.

God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.

Thessalonians 5:18) Give thanks every day. Make it an exercise. While you glorify God, you will help yourself. You will look on the sunny side of life, you will enjoy your life, and you will help others enjoy their lives. Giving thanks honors God. Also the exercise helps you to be better, feel better, and look better.

Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. (II Corinthians

She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer.

She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author

My mother knew when to listen and when to pray and when to help. I wonder hoy many people knew the compassion Mary Finlayson held for them and how hard, in the privacy of her God Box, she prayed for them and their struggles.

If any of us ever re-worried abot a request, Mom would say, "If you think you can handle it better than God, it´s coming out."Just the suggestion that we thought we were more powerful than God put us in out places and made us stop fretting and start believing.

Mom wrote to God like a pen pal would, so straightforward and friendly. Her mind ricocheted from one thought to another, as mine still does.

Finding the God Boxes was like reading Mom´s heart. [...] Her unconditional belief in God came alive for me.

Believing in God was easy with Mom at my side.

Using the excuse of a busy life, I downshifted my conversations with God to asking for favors on the run.

As much as I acted as if I could move mountains with my willpower, like thinking I could force a new business win, I knew I wasn´t really in charge of anything. Deep inside, I believed that God was. But oh, how I tried.

how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.' And I will answer: 'Yes.

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.