A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

People love for so many different reasons. Some love you for only what you can do for them. Others love you for how much money you have or various material things. Love is sometimes tossed...

But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word “hell,” what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn’t his point. He’s often not talking about...

No matter how many times you think you have failed, there is always another opportunity for you to succeed.

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus’ secret was His ability to see into people’s hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could...

Maybe you should’ve let God do the planning, rather than doing it yourself.

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew;The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.

The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed:...

I’m proud of you. You could have run away, but you didn’t. That’s what most of us do when we have to face a giant.

Managing stress is about controlling the way you respond to events and having an open mind about the things that stress you. Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give...

For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce...

The mysteries I desired to learn of heaven and earth and all that is between could only be taught by experiencing you.

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for...

Frankly, I even worried about the fact that I was so worried. Worrying about the strength of my faith—how it stood up to others’—didn’t seem to be a healthy sign. I mean, didn’t worrying about...

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with...

There is sanctity in knowing, being, wanting, feeling all of everything for you.

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands...

Twin flames burn eternal. Destine to shine bright in a united embrace that is set to last for an eternity.

When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

Every song is a story unfolding.

Wait on the Lord” is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it...

Faith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief’… is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord.Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim:Know and...

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain, insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it...

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you...

I said, “Where’s all that delivering God’s supposed to do?”He snorted. “You’re right, the only deliverance is the one we get for ourselves. The Lord doesn’t have any hands and feet but ours.””That doesn’t say...

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical” ~R. Alan Woods [2007]

A daily diet of God’s Word is guaranteed to bless.

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

Floating there I held onto faith. Because you can’t know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. You can’t know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by...

Das Leben ist heilig bei euch, bei uns ist es der Tod, der heilig ist.

You see, God didn’t create us to merely survive. He created us to thrive! We were made for abundant life.

Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith.” (Br. Cadfael)

To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the tag, to dance in graitutde, to embrance with abandon, to...

He may not necessarily calm the storm but He can calm you in/thru the storm! jw

He chooses us, not because we believe, but that we may believe; lest we should say that we first chose Him” (Augustine). Faith receives the electing love of God not as if it had already...

Death is only dreadful for those who live in dread and fear of it. Death is not wild and terrible, if only we can be still and hold fast to God’s Word. Death is not...

may my faith always beat the end of the daylike a hummingbird…returningto its favorite flower.

As long as there is life, there is a potential; and as long as there is a potential, there will be a success! You will sprout again when cut down! You will rise again even...

‘Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard… ‘Tis the living up to it that’s difficult.

Whether we choose the path of faith or not, we all must agree that all of life’s ironies cannot be by accident.

Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith,” said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, “and a kind of faith more independent, autonomous – more truly strong, as a matter of...