Quotes About Faith

so the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.

What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent?

The direction of joy isn't always up. Often to be joyful we must go down - down through the noise of racing thoughts, down through swirling chaos of circumstances, down through the deceptive appearances of life, down into the still waters and green pastures of the heart's core.

El verdadero amor siempre es predestinado. El mismo fue ordenado desde antes de la creación del tiempo. Entre las coincidencias, es la que más preparación ha tenido. Y el destino, por supuesto, no es otra cosa que un término secular para la voluntad de Dios, y coincidencia de su gracia.

The taking of vows is an act of faith. If people were faithful by nature, vows would not be necessary; their yes would be yes and their no would be no. But it is because people are not inherently faithful nor honest nor loving that they must stand up and declare they will be.

With trust, everything is possible.

a county with a unique history of people starving and mortifying themselves for higher causes and principles, a political reflex that has twitched steadily down the years and seems rooted in some aggravated sense of sinfulness because, like no other county it is blistered with shrines and grottoes and prayer houses and hermitages just as it is crossed with pilgrim paths and penitential ways

you have to have faith, Dad, that's what we Mayo people do, we journey in hope, true believers

a gradual leaking away of all conviction

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse-- no matter the people-- no matter the language-- Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one-- long enough-- hard enough-- You will find one truth.

God will give you new pictures. Instead of going back into your memory, let God move you into your future through your imagination. Your Memory Replays Your Past; Your Imagination Preplays Your Future

Never eliminate anyone from the chain of your success. Jesus Never Discriminated. That is why He was a Double Diamond.

the Source of Abundance…is God. God is the Source of every good thing. Every good and every perfect gift comes from God (see James 1:17). His methods are clear in Scripture.

La sabiduría es la habilidad para interpretar una situación a través de los ojos de Dios.

The Person of Jesus creates your Peace. His Principles create your Prosperity.

to think something is good, to do something is God.

It is a journey from doing things for God to doing things with Him. I was a really good steward for many years. I used to do what I felt God asked me to do, but now I have discovered that it is much better, and much more fun, to do things with Him. It is a journey from slavery to sonship.

My journey is from reading about God in the Bible to living with Him on a daily basis.

My journey goes from visiting the house of God, which most of us do, to being a house of God, which all of us are.

Money will come when you are doing the right thing.