Quotes Tagged "faith"

Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind. I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it.

The only explanation that I can come up with to explain the passion that I have to do what I cannot is the existence of a God who can.

Loyalty is the quantizing basis of all emotions. Faithfulness is the cornerstone to love, hate, anger, patriotism, friendship, compassion, and self-respect. Love is the agent of universal synthesis. Love links and draws together the elements of the world.

There is no such thing as false hope. There is only hope

At those moments when life caves in and all falls dark, the space that I’ve created between myself and God feels impossibly vast. Yet, if I seek Him I will turn and suddenly find that the vastness I thought to be there was nothing more than the ‘assumption’ of His absence.

Our deepest beliefs about the universe filter their way up through the soil into the tiny aesthetic decisions that the artist makes. How we make our records. Which color feels right. Rhyme schemes and word choices. These kinds of decisions are rarely made out of purely analytical comparison. They come from the guts. From faith.

Faith is believing in something that I am not. And since the vast majority of this existence is made up of what I am not, I’m left wondering why is faith so difficult.

She went to church every week because of Mother and because she wanted something more meaningful than work, but some days the world seemed too unfair, too random, and too ugly for faith of any kind. Other days it was too beautiful not to believe in something. And in a moment like this, she wasn't sure which it was.

As soon as fear replaces faith, God can no longer answer our prayers or fight on our behalf, because His promises will not work apart from faith.

The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams and humble beginnings.

If it were believable, we wouldn’t have to stretch ourselves to believe it. Therefore, because God refuses to leave us trapped in the smallness of ourselves, He says things that are unbelievable so that we have no choice but to be stretched.

Maybe true beauty is when something quite ‘simple’ exercises whatever bit of faith it holds, and in the exercising it suddenly discovers that the ‘simple thing’ that it always thought itself to be only served to hide the ‘great thing’ that it always was.

When the storms of life hit, you have to anchor down with your feet firmly planted on the ground. The winds will blow, the trees will shake but you my dear, will not break!

In many ways, the aspect of the story of Christ that we both find so compelling and relatable is God’s choice to experience the discomforts of being human as a sign of his love for us. … Living in community with other people … is uncomfortable. We have ideas that test each other. We have vigorous and painful disagreements. Rather than being discouraged, we can recognize our discomfort, ease into it, and share the experience of being human together.

Salvation is to be set free from the evil of sin.

Lack of prayer is the lost paradise.

What is spiritual can only experience in the spirit of Faith.

People usually do not trust others because they see others as different from themselves. They subconsciously identify themselves with both the positive and negative traits of their character.

Self-confidence doesn’t require tailored expressions at all times; instead, it expresses itself in different interesting ways.

what we need to do is simply have faith in what we are and find our worth accordingly.