The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

…and when is enough proof enough?

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?

Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example.

Don’t put your faith in seeing God working during a circumstance. Trust in the fact that when He is done working, you will receive the end results.

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.

The quality common to the three experiences… is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be...

Exercising a spiritual gift without showing true love is meaningless.

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs...

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Rose, we are here today. Tomorrow we don’t know where life will take us to. So, as long as we have today in our hands, let’s not slip it from our hands. Let’s live it!

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

When you aren’t sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that’s the basic principle of every faith.

Sin embargo, conocí a muchos internados que supieron ser fieles a su dignidad humana hasta el mismo fin. Los nazis lograron degradarlos físicamente, pero no fueron capaces de rebajarlos moralmente.Gracias a estos pocos, no he...

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that...

I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me.

Children are born with a desire to have meaning. Give them Jesus, and they will have it eternally.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them

Faith is the receiver of grace; unbelief is the rejector.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Grab your pen! Grab your sword! Eviscerate small minds with pinpoint force of mental might. Victory is in horizon’s sight!

Jauh lebih menyenangkan merasa bahwa Tuhan mendengarkanmu dan mengatakan tidak, ketimbang merasa tak ada siapa pun yang mendengarkanmu

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don’t see things the way we do.

And God’s epic grace shows us how to rise above our pain and circumstances with enduring hope and faith in him.

Letting goI can have a firm foundationTo honor youAnd hold you in my heart

In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing… with no will of their...

For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended...

Confidently step into the future, knowing that God has got you this far as a promise that He is able to get you beyond.

Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize the drop of divinity that resides in our own souls though hidden, master? In...

You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a...

Proverbs 28:26Those who trust in their own reasoning are fools, but those who walk in Wisdom will be kept safe.

He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I’m going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn’t…that’s the thing: I’ve read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says....

If the sky has turned a darkened grey and the sea threatens to spill the occupants in the boat, know that the Lord God made the storm still, and though you shall face storms in...

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God’s Book tells us to “try.” Now count the times it tells us to “trust.

At any given moment, your circumstances can change. You may not be where you want to be right now. You may not even be doing what you prefer to do. But, if you change your...

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand… I think she’s right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the...

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of...

Preparation is essential to achieving your goals in life. You don’t want to miss a great opportunity because you were not prepared. Determination and motivation will put you on the right track. You’ve got the...

…they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn’t be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.

Warriors will always have wounds from the battle, but they are only stronger from them.

Lihat, ini Arok, yang tetap mempertahankan Tumapel. Dia dan pasukannya akan mempertahankannya sampai titik darah terakhir. Bukan karena imbalan uang, emas dan perak dan singgasana. Hanya karena kesetiaan pada janji.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

God resides most strongly and evidently where science has not yet progressed to go… And if this is true then it follows that God resides everywhere and in everything.

It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.