Whether we are feasting or fasting or somewhere in between, food should have a sacred role in our lives. It can be something we sacrifice, something we savor, something we share, and through it all...

When he gets to his pew and looks round him he sees just that selection of his neighbors whom he has hitherto avoided. You want to lean pretty heavily on those neighbors. Make his mind...

practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how’s, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and...

If I could take a bite of the whole worldAnd feel it on my palateI’d be more happy for a minute or so…But I don’t always want to be happy.Sometimes you have to beUnhappy to...

Taking the Right Decision in any situation only requires TWO major ingredients:Critical Thinking and Grace.Critical Thinking is like ‘Works’ and Grace is like ‘Faith’. So if “Faith without Works is dead,” then same, I believe,...

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

Belief isn’t something you can be reassured about. It’s something that has to come from inside.

Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality”.

I want to believe there’s a God. Because I sure as hell know there’s a devil.

God must build our anointing strong, so He can lay His glory thick.

Let’s not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let’s pray about it instead.

There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

When the voices of doubt start whispering, turn-up the volume of faith and listen to your heart.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

Clary saw him take Mark’s hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy’s palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. ‘Take this with you,’ said Jace, ‘for it can be dark in...

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed…I have chosen to side with faith and hope over doubt and despair.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often...

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.

And here she was. Lying on the floor of a dusty, empty, locked room thinking how grateful she felt.She smiled, though it hurt tremendously to do so, thinking how blessed she had been to have...

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.

If God is your pilot, do not fear any turbulence.

We live by faith and not by sight.

When we wallow in anxiety and doubts, we subject ourselves to fear. When we focus on the greatness of God, we make fear subject to faith.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then);...

It’s amazing how people can find all the mistakes in the world concerning another person, but look into the mirror every day without making changes within. Stop looking down your nose at others, What does...

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how...

Our belief ultimately determines our faith.

The story of getting there is greater than the story of being there. Wherever your there might be.

Focus on keeping faith and growing your roots of light so strong and deep that no one, not even yourself, can make you believe something about yourself that is not good for your soul.

People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.

There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad…To produce this horrible confection at home, start with our genocidal treatment of the Native Americans, add a couple...

Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at...

The best way we can show our gratitude is by incorporating into our own lives the faithfulness to God’s commandments, the compassion and love for our fellowmen, the industry, optimism, and joy the pioneers demonstrated...

Patience is the glue that binds hard work and faith.

Trust God with your love life, and buckle up for the ride!

Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.”I understand the concept. It’s just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.”Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man’s starvation, war, sickness . . .”Exactly!’ Chartrand...

Distance may be the segregator but our thoughts and dreams are what keep us together.

It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts…It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity...

Grace does not make sense. It’s not supposed to make sense. Grace cannot be calculated or formulated, earned or even rewarded for a job well done. Grace is a gift, not a salary.

At Abraham’s burial, his two most prominent sons, rivals since before they were born, estranged since childhood, scions of rival nations, come together for the first time since they were rent apart nearly three-quarters of...

Happiness is being emerged in thoughts of you.

the stranger’s room.” Not because these people thought they could trace something of someone they loved in the stranger who used it, not because the man or woman to whom they gave shelter reminded them...

You make me want to be a better than I am today.

Shetani hataacha kukuandama. Atakuandama mpaka siku utakapookoka. Yaani, siku utakapookolewa na Yesu Kristo, siku ambapo Shetani hatakuwepo tena. Silaha kuu tunayotakiwa kuwa nayo ni imani. Mungu hababaishwi na matatizo yako. Anababaishwa na imani yako.

You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.

Adam Kuambiana umerudi nyumbani ulikotoka, ukiongozwa na imani na mwanga wa wale uliowapenda na kuwapoteza. Hatuwezi kukumbuka kwamba umetutoka bila kukumbuka kwamba uliishi, na kwamba maisha yako yalitupa kumbukumbu nzuri tusizoweza kuzisahau haraka. Jumanne, siku...