Without God, the universe is an empty space, and emptiness is the most terrible feeling you can have.” – Ernesto.

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday...

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence...

And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,”You owe Me.”Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.

Concentrated complete faith – that alone can bring victory.

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if...

Love only fails when we fail to love.

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

The most pressing problem facing America can’t be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can’t be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on...

The things that challenge our trust in God also, challenge our confidence within ourselves.

Isn’t it the task of the Holy Spirit to introduce some madness and intoxication into the world? Why this propensity for balance and safety? Don’t we all long for one moment of raw risk, one...

It was quite a wedding and as I stood there watching I realized something I’d forgotten a long time ago. Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you...

But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god’s existence, then...

Our job on earth isn’t to criticize, reject, or judge. Our purpose is to offer a helping hand, compassion, and mercy. We are to do unto others as we hope they would do unto us.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.

Be honest with the Lord. If you’re afraid, say so. If you’re feeling abandoned, tell Him. He already knows every sin you’ve committed and He loves you anyway. Confess honestly. Beg for help. Converse with...

Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil.

It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God’s service...

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken...

It takes so little… to lose it; grief and disappointment can takes one’s faith away so easily that you might wake one morning and have none left.

I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had — no matter what.

It’s not dying for faith that’s so hard, it’s living up to it.

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found–I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the...

When it’s your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

In the realm of faith, there is no future tense

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.

The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.

Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.

You’re on God’s mind, He thinks a lot about you and has good plans for your life.

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of...

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.

Always protect your heart with unconditional self-love, faith and courage.

Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage

Sí, a veces la idea más absurda, la idea más fantástica en apariencia, se apodera de nosotros con tal fuerza que acabamos por creerla realizable.

A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.

Do everything with the greatest possible calm and serenity and out of the greatest, purest and holiest love of Jesus and Mary.

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt...

Like a fountain of refreshing water in the dusty, dry desert streets, a heart God fills with His love ministers life and health.

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once...

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

There’s no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Tell me,’ asked Stas, ‘what is a wicked deed?’ ‘If anyone takes away Kali’s cow,’ he answered after a brief reflection, ‘that then is a wicked deed.’ ‘Excellent!’ exclaimed Stas, ‘and what is a good...

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and estimates as such the lost cause of the creature, and that in spite of its opposition He gives...

Jamie reflected that if he purposely went down to the crags of the Pacific and threw himself to the sharks, when he came before God and his father and mother, he could carry no smiling...