The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.

The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We live in fear of losing what we think we possess. Once we let...

According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t...

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion...

You didn’t just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren’t made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You...

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy.

Science adjusts its views based on what’s observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Grace means God gives. Faith means I receive.

The ones who appear to be unemotional are in real the most emotional ones.

My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive.

The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that...

God wants you to live a life larger than you and whenever He brings you into something new, it’s always somehow connected to impacting people’s lives and making the world a better place.

a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. (p. 64-65, Church:...

It may seem like it would take years to see your dreams fulfilled, but when you see things from God’s perspective, you realize that He is not limited by time; He can do a lot...

Understanding is the reward of faith.

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

Even in the midst of difficult times when everything seems to be out of control, you can still control one thing. You can commit yourself to pray every day and to trust God no matter...

Keep pushing with faith, hope and courage, for there is a very valuable prize waiting for you at the end of your struggle.

A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is also an enemy of the reality that following Jesus is a journey, not...

Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see...

I can share my dreams, and even encourage you along the way, but you have to have your own dreams. You have to want for something, and work towards it. Don’t give up in when...

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

Can we stay faithful and persistent in our fidelity even when things seem not to succeed? I suppose Jesus could have chosen a strategy that worked better (evidence-based outcomes) — that didn’t end in the...

As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray,...

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.

Fine art refers to an accomplished or advanced skill being used to testify and reveal the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the creator. There is no art more exquisite than the work of the Master...

People will always tear you down and give you countless reasons to give up, but if you have faith in yourself, you can accomplish anything.

Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural…Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting , to...

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

Her name is Faith, or that’s what I believe it to be.

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT

It take faith to follow your dreams and courage to reach them.

If death is no longer a fear, we’re really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.

He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on the JUDGE’s bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he...

Prayer is learning to know God.

Heavenly Father, I will always call on you, I know you will answer.

Merciful God. Faithful God.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed… Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

God of miracles.God of wonders.

My duty is to pray. I know God hears my prayers.

Hope is strong faith.

Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul.

Love is an act; the act of loving, the act of compassionate and the act of forgiveness.

Be of good cheer, your visions will be fulfilled at their own time.

Pursue your passion and live your best life.

What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.