That’s how you avoid becoming a moth,” he says. “Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.

I thought back to that precious moment … when he’d first pulled me into his arms. How strong I’d felt. That same feeling of strength had washed over me afresh when Twila and the other...

My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.

The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word ‘humble.’ This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust – dust that the...

The great trouble with religion – any religion – is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith...

There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his...

Hope is magic. Hope is a gift. Hope is a raft we cling to in the midst of a storm. Hope by nature is an independent of logic. Hope is power outside of the facts.The...

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy’s lies.

And darkness. You can’t see it no more than you can see air, but when its all around you sure enough know it.” (Serena, 65-66)

Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of “you can’t” or “you won’t” or “why bother.” More than anything else, mastering that...

It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship!’Without the religion, without the archaic and flawed holy texts, there wouldn’t be anything for you to manufacture a ‘relationship’ with. Without the wars and forced conversions key to...

PRAISE FOR ‘THE JOURNEY HOME’Many saints are known and praised by all. We pray to them in litanies and celebrate their feast days. But the vast majority of holy men and women live heroic lives...

The garden of faith Has no room to grow a weed like fear.

Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of all existence, may become to the mind the most real...

The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own Cabinet, but he recognized that his major confidence was not himself but in...

But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn’t fear that will defeat them. Not fear or faith or hope or even...

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.

Do not agree to a disagreeable thing spoken by someone you like or disagree to an agreeable thing spoken by someone you dislike.

When your faith is sinking, drown your fear

Courage is not only a form of inspiration, but an effective weapon to achieve anything you desire on this earth.

It rains on everyone. It may be storming but there is a covering.Life may be challenging, but there is a covering.It may seem impossible, hopeless, doubtful, fear-ridden, and pain-laden, but there is a covering. There...

nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a...

The key to changing your self-image is not to call yourself by the mistakes you’ve made or how people see you, but to call yourself the way God sees you.

By eroding their sense of shame we’ve made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. …their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if...

Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size,...

That’s for the best. Otherwise they might realize they’re in prison. It can’t be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he...

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?

[Knowing God]… call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither… [its] the decision to be faithful,...

Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same...

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

Don’t settle for anyone just to have a someone. Be patient. Have faith and wait for the right one.

Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the very act of opening His Mouth is Movement, indeed the greatest...

Many people equate what they do with what they hope they are. They want to identify with Christianity and have an idea of what they need to do to wear that label. The only problem...

Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

I have learned in my journey of faith that, the closer I am walking with God, the more likely the devil will be working to make me stumble.

Spirituality is about oneness—one love, one seeker, one soul, and one spirituality that speaks to all people. No matter a person’s fame, fortune, or faith, they are one with you.

Faith is believing in something you know isn’t true.

please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of...

I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those you cannot help. Have faith in God and remember that He will is His...

instrument of God’s will.

Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.”Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.