Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.

You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me” (Jn 20:29) This is not a plea to accept what goes against reason, but it is an invitation to discover...

When you live by God’s Word, your life works. When you live without God’s Word, life doesn’t work. God’s Word builds you up, feeds your soul, and gives you strength, direction, guidance, hope, encouragement, and...

Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the...

Have faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.

I have hopein who I am becoming.I have belief in every scar and disgraceful wordI have ever spokenor been toldbecause it is still teaching meand I have hope in who I am becoming.They say it...

Let us keep in mind that we do not have to go to the scriptures inorder to approach God. We do not have to find the right scripture inorder to talk to God”.

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

It is the height of foolishness to loose faith in God when someone you care for dies. The sentence that he earned is over and he is released.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in.

It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual’s experiential truths – the extreme of the former is left feeling in...

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic”.

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

I’m only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified...

God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You’ll recognize Him and know in...

Satisfaction in life doesn’t jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life.

Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your...

‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in...

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

You don’t need superpowers to be someones hero

To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital ‘S,’ is not virtue – it’s faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.

The past is over and I choose to live in the present and in anticipation of the amazing future God has for me.

Up to now, most atheists have simply criticized religion in various ways, but the point is to dispel it. In A Manual For Creating Atheists, Peter Boghossian fills that gap, telling the reader how to...

When we operate with faith, we live in the realm of God

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

…you’re either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

Have faith. Ye’ve so much for everyone else. Why not save some for yerself once in a while?

Give all of us gathered here tonight the strength to remember that life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives… fall. We will all...

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying?

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty.

Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher...

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are...

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways. Faith is the central problem of this age. The Western world does not know...

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which Christianity has not adopted, but invented, are faith, hope and charity. Now… the...

The best antidote to worry is action. If there is an action that will lessen the likelihood of a dreaded outcome occurring, and if that action doesn’t cost too much in terms of effort or...