Quotes About Faith

But I've been walking through the night and the dayTill my eyes get weary and my head turns grey,And sometimes it seems maybe God's gone away,Forgetting the promise that we heard him say—And we're lost out here in the stars—

might not this "something else" be the living address of the Word of God spoken and responded to in faith, which is indeed present in, experienced by, and celebrated in the liturgical act, but in no way bound to that act but bound instead to the Spirit of God?

Jesus expressed the same thought when he told us not to hide our light under a bushel, but to let our light shine "so that your Father may be glorified." I cannot believe that it brings any glory to God when his children go around with hangdog expressions, being miserable, afraid to lift up their heads and "be somebody.

Such a Creator would not deliberately engineer his product to fail, any more than a manufacturer would deliberately build failure into an automobile. The fundamentalists tell us that man's chief purpose and reason for living is to "glorify God," and the humanists tell us that man's primary purpose is to "express himself fully.

God sees us as men and women in whom and through whom He can do a great work. He sees us as already serene, confident, and cheerful.

let our light shine "so that your Father may be glorified.

God sees us as men and women in whom and through whom He can do a great work. He sees us as already serene, confident, and cheerful. He sees us not as pathetic victims of life, but masters of the art of living; not wanting sympathy, but imparting help to others, and therefore thinking less and less of ourselves, and full, not of self-concern, but of love and laughter and a desire to serve. . .

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Where can I gowithout my mountall eager and quickHow will I knowin thicket aheadis danger or treasurewhen Body my goodbright dog is deadQuestion, st. 3

It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

No amount of saying 'I love you' and 'I trust you' makes it true when it isn't.

You must have faith in the duke, and in true love." She groaned. "Easy for you to say! You are not in a wedding dress laced so tightly as to make it impossible to breathe, uncertain if your groom will arrive before suffocating to death. Though perhaps that would be preferable to life after being jilted at the altar.

Možda bi trebalo da ih mrzim ali ne mogu. Ja nemam dva srca jedno za mržnju drugo za ljubav. Ovo što imam sad zna samo za tugu. Moja molitva i moja pokora moj život i moja smrt sve to pripada Bogu stvoritelju svijeta. Ali moja žalost pripada meni.

Bismilahir-rahmanir-rahim! I call to witness the ink, the quill, and the script, which flows from the quill; I call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening, the night and all she enlivens; I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrise when it dawns. I call to witness the Resurrection Day and the soul that accuses itself; I call to witness time, the beginning and end of all things - to witness that every man always suffers loss.

Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško ?ovjeku ako su mu mjera nebo i zemlja.

What is the devotion if there is no temptation which is master on their own? The man is not God and his strength is just in that to suppress its nature, if there is nothing to suppress what's the difference?

Ne osvajamo zemlju ve? grumen za svoju stopu ni planinu ve? sliku u svome oku ni more ve? njegovu gibljivu ?vrtsinu i odsjaj njegove površine. Ništa nije naše osim naše vere zato se cvrsto držimo za nju.

Griješne misli su kao vjetar ko ce ih zaustaviti U cemu je pobožnost ako nema iskušenja koja se savladavaju ?ovjek nije Bog i njegova snaga je baš u tome da suzbija svoju prirodu.

Moja molitva i moja pokora, moj život i moja smrt, sve to pripada Bogu, stvoritelju svijeta. Ali moja žalost pripada meni.