Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

Have the faith you are enough, the temerity to realize you are worthy, and the hunger to be the man or woman people will adore and appreciate fully.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

I can only imagine how happy life would be if we could stay so grounded in our faith that we would never waver in our positive attitudes.

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the...

With the music of our singing in the background, I looked at the church candles and thought about the surreal connection between images and memory. The peaceful and joyous candles flickering there during the Christmas...

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with the possible loss, during infancy, of parental love, respect or support. The unexamined...

I believe I am a witness to the Invisible Man, because I saw nothing. I’m just as reliable—and unreliable—as Helen Keller.

It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others.

Jesus has prayed over us that our faith in Him will not fail but rather be strengthened by the process we go through.

The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

My faith is big enough to accept all of God’s wonders.

A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.

Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light

God predetermined our destiny.

Be willing to listen to the voice of God.

Sprinkled in with the beauty and joy of life will be storms. These storms will require you to anchor yourself to your faith until your rainbow arrives.

God is great.God is amazing.

This insistence on a degree of faith in the communicant is also illustrative of Wesley’s belief in the necessity for the co-operation of an active faith in man with the gift of God’s grace to...

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 … obeyed by faith … obedience is the pathway to holiness … no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim...

Every prayer victory makes it easier to believe the next time.

The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.

But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn’t about...

Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

The Bible, Holy writings.

Accept God’s love, unconditional love.

Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'” said the sorrowful girl. “‘What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

I remember us saying that we liked small houses, that proximity engendered closeness in a family. That nobody should be raised by a nanny or in day care. I remember us saying that time, not...

Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold…” A...

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Keep yourselves from idols.” The warning isn’t given to them because it wasn’t a real danger or because there was an off chance someone might fall into idolatry. It was given because this is our...

Children are sacred beings.

As long as we know what it’s about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and...

I’ve learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

If I spelled out the Principles of FaithI would be barking on the moon.

Smiling is not a choice, it’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens—even when things go wrong.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.

A well lived life is purpose filled

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God.

Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivation for eating as well as for other actions. Why do I eat? Am I...

And now it is time for my story to end, because we have finally reached the beginning.

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation…and instead to revel in the mystery.