Faith

"Real faith comes when you facing a problem you can't help, you can't change, and you can't work it out"

"...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death."

"Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult."

"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."

"My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!"

"For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!"

"The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power."

"It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures."

"Faith is a quiet certainty that there is both a higher purpose to life and a higher power that oversees that purpose. Faith is knowing that we do not have to go it alone during our darkest hours and, even when we feel utterly victimized and weak, there is still something brighter, purer, and more potent than anything we can imagine that cares enough to reach out and offer a shoulder for us to lean upon. The object of faith takes many forms and many names, but the universal truth is faith itself."

"Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question."

"God has arranged strange ways for some of us to find him. Sometimes He brings us on long physical journeys; sometimes He leaves us at home and makes the journey internal. Yours has been both. You have gone a long way and struggled a great deal, but I can see from your eyes that it was not for nothing."

"The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ... I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned."

"A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted."

"Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith."

"Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested."

"Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace."

"And here she was. Lying on the floor of a dusty, empty, locked room thinking how grateful she felt. She smiled, though it hurt tremendously to do so, thinking how blessed she had been to have spent twelve years with the most precious gifts from God. She felt honored that they called her mother. She knew she had done the best she could teaching them about life and love, faith and family. Margo lay slowly dying from the wounds inflicted by a monster, but she was at peace. Because though the devil meant it for evil, God turned it to good."

"It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology."

"God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying God’s guidance to fit your own needs."

"He is cured by faith who is sick of fate."