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...

Learn from the past, but don’t be a prisoner of it.

But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and...

When heavens smile on a man, the earth have no other choice than to respond to his needs

If I were a character in one of my books, I’d be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.

You may have seen some good days in the past, but God doesn’t want to give you an encore; He wants to exceed your wildest expectations!

I just want to tell you: the only good thing in these days is that I still believe there’s something good behind all these things. I don’t know what that good thing is but the...

The day I became a writerit wasn’t the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn’t the first time someone...

Saaxiibadaa, markaad guulaysato waxay ogaanayaan qofkaad tahay markaad guuldaraysatana waxaad ogaaanaysaa waxay yihiin.

Sometimes it is worth taking a risk, no matter what the consequences.

If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.

Don’t be discouraged when they laugh at your adversity; instead, smile at them, because through persistence, perseverance and faith, you would be laughing at their surprised faces in the future.

To seek is to show valor. To endure is to show strength. To believe all will arise in a time of perfection. There shows trust and faith in you.

I believe in God and that everything I do is because of Him. If I don’t have a relationship with God, I can’t love my wife and kids the way I’m supposed to love them.

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what...

Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child’s life.

Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.

It’s one thing to have a goal, but it’s quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and...

It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our spouses were not going to show up out of the blue. It was...

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long...

He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never...

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...