We attract what we are prepared to receive.

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.

Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such...

Dare to live the fairytale.

To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness.

Faith is an act whereby they learn their God.

I can resist everything but the temptation of you.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Faith is the switch that turns the impossible into possible.

In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful...

As long as you have breath in your body, there’s hope.

Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria in his landmark work The Major Symptoms of Hysteria. His catalogue of symptoms...

The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at...

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

It was the closest she’d ever come to praying. Even in her darkest moments, she had never turned to God. That was her mom’s deal, not hers.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

I do not know the answers to life’s hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that’s sufficient…for now.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

A wish becomes a greatest desire at the very moment when a person’s belief in the seemingly impossible is stronger than any doubt.-Kevin McNamara

Fear clogs; Faith liberates

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make...

Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.

For man’s only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don’t understand. So far, my...

God with us”. This God wasn’t content with dwelling in fiction, this God wasn’t content living with the seraphim and this God wasn’t content with bulls and goats anymore. This God wanted to dwell with...

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.

Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains.

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace–bottle after bottle of pure...

My best days are ahead of me and I choose not to let where I’ve been to stop me from where I am going.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Keep believing and keep dreaming; you may never know what big things are just around the corner.

Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all their good things in this life, and the good all their evil; that...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind; only with the death...

Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.

A prayer without faith is absolutely meaningless.

Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn’t get the luxury of all those...

I used to think that life was hills and valleys-you go through a dark time, then to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don’t believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I...