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...

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

All wisdom comes from God.

If you are looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for a reason to continue you must fight for it.

I’ve dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to...

saved.” Alone. Watching Jimmy Swaggart on late-night TV. I also spent a painful vacation with my family one summer at Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Heritage USA Christian theme park in South Carolina. But that’s...

I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn’t do this to someone I hated.

Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.

What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone’s jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it...

A little belief, a little faith, a little hope is sometimes all we need, to see the light.

You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.

Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage … an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand...

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.

I’ve got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

Soul mates recognise one another’s vibration. They instantly fuse to the life force that surrounds their core of being.

He showed me a sketch he’d drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should...

Fulfil my wishes, Obey my commands.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own...

In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of...

There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed…it is nothing less than the will to keep one’s mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

The easy conclusion- thatthe devil is at work trying to destroy the church- is true, but itʼs not the whole story. Ofcourse the enemy is at work doing that. But closer examination shows that much...

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don’t abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself...

And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it’s a friend you need let it be me

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in...

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person...

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...