Quotes About Faith

the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.

Beliefs create reality

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

I'll never be lonely Even if I am alone For I've a precious Savior Who'll come to take me home. But while I'm here His servant I will be With one foot on earth And one in eternity. And I'll gather His crops To populate His land And if I feel weary I'll cling tighter to his hand.

I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

By his stripes you are healed.

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.

Jesus, you are hereby officially welcomed into me. Now only action will reveal your effect on me.

This was the virtue of Israel, to have "contended with Elokim and with men" and to have prevailed over their respective concealments of G-d. They are no longer barriers to him; indeed they assent to his blessings. He not only won his struggle with the angel (the guardian angel of Esau) but the angel himself blessed him. This is the achievement of which the Proverbs speak: "He makes even his enemies be at peace with him."14

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*

And when Quimet saw the doves flying above our roof and only above our roof, his face stopped looking so yellow and he said everything was okay. When the doves got sick of flying they started to come down, first one and then another. They went back in the dovecote like old ladies going to mass, taking little steps and jerking their heads like wind-up toys.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

I've frequently been told things like: "Girl, you've been hanging out with too many white folk" ; "What do you have to be depressed about? If our people could make it through slavery, we can make it through anything" ; "Take your troubles to Jesus, not no damn psychiatrist.

That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing." "What's the difference?" Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

The dogma of religion is love, and love is obedience to creationism.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Sve ?e pro?i. Ali, kakva je to utjeha? Pro?i ?e i radost, pro?i ?e i ljubav, pro?i ?e i život. Zar je nada u tome da sve pro?e?

Pretvorio sam se u ?ovjeka koji moli, a to je posljednje bi?e na zemlji. Ispod toga nema ništa.