Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.
I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.
But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren't that many of us.
There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.
With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.
Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!
While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.
I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
Faith allows us to confidently walk with God into a future filled with joy; one that can become an extraordinary and amazing adventure.
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.
The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.
If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.