Faith Quotes - Page 33

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

I have cancer. Cancer doesn't have me.

Having faith does not mean you should be idle and expecting manna to fall from above. You must get up and do something!

To brim with hope, to cultivate just one small kernel of faith, to sport a touch of confidence, and to have one’s innate material embedded with layers of feisty are all that makes for the plucky kind of courage that means anything in the end.

The fault in our stars is the inability to see that the world falls in love with fantasy, fairytales and magic in movies. Even religion asks us to believe in the most unlikely of situations. However, despite all the great movies we love, we choose to see so many real life spiritual experiences as delusion, mania, psychosis or wishful thinking. Our society gives great devotion to the arts. However, they solve so many problems with realism, rather than giving into the possibilty of God's plan for a person, that doesn't involve their theological views about how God helps write his children's stories.

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 the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period."(VOTF - Voice of the Faithful - a Catholic group that wants to change the Church, keep the faith.)

We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

How wide, how long, how deep is the love that Saviour extends to all humanity!

I am humbled by the grace of God.I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.Humbled by others' kindness.Humbled by life.I drop down to my knees and give thanks.

If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.

And when you fall, because you always do fall. When you swim for the beach to catch your board. There’s peace to be found in the shoreward pull with every passing wave.

All you need is someone to believe in you to become the new believer of yourself

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 if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is.

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.

Every time I try to be righteous by my own actions, God reminds me my righteousness comes from Jesus alone.

Believe in God.

Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war

I am a new creation in the Christ Jesus. Amen!

Speak to me of love said St Francis to the almond tree and the tree blossomed.

God created all people.

Don’t give up on yourself, your family and your nation.

Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has become a goal serving the ends of a priest or a demagogue and rest of the living are merely tools to serve that end. If it is not to become a fossil, it has to be a living faith serving the cherished values of the living.

If its a lie,Then let me live,Between the interconnected fabric of truths,Offer me no more,Give me no less.

We do matter. To believe that our lives are meaningful is the essence of faith. We are not as large, or as bright, or as eternal as the stars, but we carry humankind's message of love across the galaxy. We are the first. We are the world makers. Our nourishment is hope. Like the tender reed shaking in the wind, we will reach up to a new sun.

Hold fast to the word of God.

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.

Answers based in truth are the foundation of wisdom.

Call on the Saviour, He will save you.

If you believe the Bible is true, you ought to know that demons are real. The Bible is filled with references of evil and demons, and Christ repeatedly cast out demons, so I believe the universe is much more complex and mysterious than it may appear to our senses.

The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt.

You never know how much you are blessed until you have nothing.

You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.

Oh, it’s mysterious lamplit evenings, here in the galaxy, one after the other. It’s one of those nights when I wander from window to window, looking for a sign. But I can’t see. Terror and a beauty insoluble are a ribband of blue woven into the fringes of garments of things both great and small. No culture explains, no bivouac offers real haven or rest. But it could be that we are not seeing something. Galileo thought that comets were an optical illusion. This is fertile ground: since we are certain that they’re not, we can look at what scientists are saying with fresh hope. What if there are really gleaming castellated cities hung upside-down over the desert sand? What limpid lakes and cool date palms have our caravans passed untried? Until, one by one, by the blindest of leaps, we light on the road to these places, we must stumble in darkness and hunger.

You must nurture the force within you. You are the only person that can behold the divine force for your divine purpose.

GOD can turn every curse into a blessings.

Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope.

You see Jesus wrecked my life

The trials test the strength of faith.

God within you is an inner light for self-realisation.

May your soul be sparked by the glorious light.

Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.

Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.

Embrace life with hopeful attitude.

1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)We talk about God's Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory.

Each time a star twinkles, God is winking at the universe.

O heavenly Father increase our Faith.

Sometimes you just have to hold on even when you don’t believe in what you’re holding on to anymore. Sometimes you have to hold on to empty and distant memories, even if it feels like there isn’t any ‘you’ left. I think that’s what faith is all about, doing what you need to do even when the feeling isn’t there anymore.

In search of Magnum opus - perhaps you were divined to be mine.

People run around looking for millions of likes in their life and on the social media but do you know what? If you get just one true like from just one who loves you the most, it surpasses all other millions. God loves you the most even without make over.

Generosity is an act of love.

Working hard is important, but there's something that matters even more. Believing in yourself. Think of it this way: Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now. Students. If they can do it, why not us?

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how you finish!

God knows us more than we know Him.

I don't want to base my life on a symbol," he said resolutely. "I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

If a person is not inspiring you positively. There is no reason for you to be around them. You don't need their negativity in your life. There's already too much in the world. Surround yourself with people who are going to uplift you and encourage you to move forward with your dreams and goals.

I have never been to the North Pole, and yet I believe there is a North Pole. How do I know? I know because somebody told me. I read about it in a history book, I saw a map in a geography book, and I believe the men who wrote those books. I accept it by faith. The Bible says, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” [Romans 10:17 KJV].

...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.