Quotes About Faith

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing upset you. Everything changes. God alone is unchanging. With patience all things are possible. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone is enough.

I am told that only two groups carry very little negative baggage inside of Christianity: Franciscans and Quakers.

La vida pasa volando. Y si encuentras el amor, luchas por él.

It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn't always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.

The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

Their prayer was rage.

But I knew jumping was like dying, I would have to let go of everything.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

In fact, prayer and certainty are the same thing; both mean the power to truly see into the future, the true future, not the image of the eternal return of the past: no one prays for the sun to come up tomorrow. Through belief, we see the future and already inhabit it.

Finding the power of the sacred, not despite suffering, but in the midst of it: This is the alchemy of dark emotions. Through this alchemy, grief moves us from sorrow for what we've lost to gratitude for what remains. Fear of life's fragility is transformed to the joy of living fully, with openness. And even despair becomes the ground of resilient faith - not just an opiate for our pain, but a profound commitment to life as it is.

Though one praises all the gods, Birds will not come down to deserts.

The bet comes to the place it knows, It does not miss its former path, No kind of magic holds it back It comes to those who give it water.

Trust not the morrow before it has come; none knows the trouble in it.

Rise up, 0 Teti, you shall not die! Utterance 373 Antechamber, West Wall The king is raised from his tomb

Don't brood on what has not yet come, nor rejoice at what has not yet happened. The patient man prolongs friendship; he who destroys a case will not be trusted.

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty.

By leaving, we are not necessarily disobeying the men according to the Bible, because we, the women, do not know exactly what is in the Bible, being unable to read it. Furthermore, the only reason why we feel we need to submit to our husbands is because our husbands have told us that the Bible decrees it.

It's hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God's will. It's hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you're not supposed to have emptiness.

Man sollte nie auf Wunder hoffen, es sei denn, man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass sie wirklich eintreffen.

Dobar je glumac onaj kome publika vjeruje da je iskren

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle Paul in Romans 7, most of those who do wrong know what's right but find themselves irresistibly attracted to its opposite. Faith idles when character shrivels

Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.