I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not...

Fear is present in our lives due to the absence of faith, not knowing our true identity as heirs & the inheritance, already ours as we hear and obey!!

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other’s attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

Time change – Moments don’t.

You cannot escape God’s call on your life. He will pursue you to the ends of the earth!

Faith in faith’ he answered himself. ‘It isn’t necessary to have something to believe in. It’s only necessary to believe that somewhere there’s something worthy of belief.

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

How we prepare our food, how we consume our food really makes a difference in how our food satisfies us and shapes the role we give food in our lives. Is it something we stuff...

and those who are well meaning assume others are too, and keep arguing logically, keep producing more studies, keep expecting an academic debate, all the time assuming that the issue at hand is the truth...

At the tattoo parlor, my friend worked with needle and ink applying a design to the skin on his client’s back, as the three of us sat discussing our spiritual desires and ambivalence about religion....

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our...

I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole,...

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

The heart easily commends and condemns itself, depending on our wave like performance. That is why we must base our worth in Jesus alone.

On the front end it (Sabbath) hurts. Leaving my to-do lists alone. Trusting the universe will continue its forward motion without my intervention. Demonstrating that it is God who sustains me and not my own...

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to...

They say in Zen, waking up to life requires three things: great faith, great doubt, and great effort. Faith isn’t a way of going to sleep. It’s the work of waking up. And, in order...

Some people you don’t give up on. Not because you can tell what they’ll be or what will happen. Not because of that. It’s because something inside you insists that you shouldn’t—something knows more or...

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth. Yet the spoken word is perhaps the least effective way of...

Lord, how excellent are Thy ways, and how devious and dark are the ways of man. Show us how to die, that we may rise again to newness of life. Rend the veil of our...

She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.

I might not have faith in many things, but I do have faith in this; that the one who sent me out will allow me to finish the mission.” -Regan

How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing….except the gentleness...

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and...

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

Whatever the method of worship and whichever the Name or Form, it is faith that matters; it is that which gives life and energy for higher things.

Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there’s a crisis.

At least you earned your belief in something…Most people around here just say they believe whatever their family believes. They don’t bother thinking for themselves…And the less they know, the louder they believe it.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they’ll never succeed because you are unique.

belief,” in the way we usually use the word, is actually the enemy of faith, religion, and spirituality. Let me say that again: belief is the enemy of faith. When we dwell on beliefs we...

Everyone is beautiful and talented in their own special way. Some people can sing, dance, play instruments, teach, and more. You may not be in the hall of fame, but you possess the ability to...

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness...

I’m gonna sit around here, stay away from there I’m gonna make pretend I just don’t care. I could get up, go get her back or maybe I’ll just let her go.Something beyond Love…lines from...

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

God will cause you to prosper, even when man says you won’t.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

The reader of these reflections of mine on the Trinity should bear in mind that my pen is on the watch against the sophistries of those who scorn the starting-point of faith, and allow themselves...

[D]iese skeptische Gegenwart glaubt weder an Gott noch an die Humanität, weder an Kronen noch Sittlichkeit – oder sie glaubt an alles zusammen, was auf das gleiche hinauskommt.

The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.