Quotes Tagged "faith"

He has no faith in principles, only in frogs.

God doesn't promise an easy journey, just a safe place to land

It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to help them despise everything that had once made their lives worthwhile and to offer them instead the privilege of knowing the one and only God and a chance, thereby, for redemption. (227)

In all seasons of the unknown, we have a choice to either be a victim in the tension, or enter into a deeper dependency upon God.

Jesus didn’t come to save us for Sunday services, He came to redeem our everyday.

Desire is much like fire, it is beautiful and mesmerising, but if unguarded can cause great destruction and loss.

I don't know how but it is happening today.

It is not eyes that are blinded, but blinded are the hearts which are within the breasts. (22:46)

God had His plans. And any journey He invited her to go on would always be an adventure. Perhaps not the one she expected, but always the one that would be the best for her.

The difficult we do now. The impossible takes a little longer.

God has a plan for your life. He wants you to get your hopes up and to dream big, but I would not be wrong to tell you that there are going to be situations that come about which are intended by the enemy to hurt you, bother you, hinder you, and keep you back from your destiny...but the journey is worth it.

Do not tell me about your principles, for words are easy to craft and talk is cheap. Rather, let me see you live them out in the sentence and syntax of everyday life. And let me see that not so that I know that you understand the principles that you espouse, for that is easy. Rather, I want to know that you understand the sacrifice of living them out, and that the weight of the principle offsets the sacrifice of carrying it.

Your dreams are on the other side of your fears!

There are no short-cuts to your destiny, just one single choice: Am I going to jump in the water?

It’s time to let go of everything that’s held you back, intimidated, or discouraged you in the past. It’s time to be fearless!

If you’re waiting for the perfect opportunity, the perfect training, or the perfect tools before you step out in obedience to God, you’ll be waiting forever.

The one thing every successful person has in common is that they started where they WERE with what they HAD. That’s all they could do, and that’s all you can do too.

The Universe has faith in you even if you don't.' the Gypsy Queen said, 'That why I am here, to be a thread of your tapestry, even you couldn't see the whole picture quite just yet.

Justice should be blind, but not blind with greed. The people must have faith in the fundamental fairness and impartiality of our system of justice if we are to have order in our society. Those who make a mockery of it must not go unpunished.

It’s not the world that enslaves me. Rather, it’s my attitude about the world as positioned against the rather faltering belief that I can change it. And when that belief is firmly rooted in a relentless thankfulness that I have both the privilege and the gifting to do exactly that, I can know that I will never be a slave to my attitude, which is one of the greatest acts of liberation that I will ever experience.