Faith

"there comes a timewhen you have to let goall the wordsall the teachingand trust the infinite"

"Although, I admit, I desire,Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain:A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --"

"Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment."

"Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight."

"Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward...just patience and faith."

"But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…"

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further."

"Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?"

"You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking."

"A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive."

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

"My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive."

"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."

"Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart."

"To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, " she said. "But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you."

"Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes."

"Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised."

"The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors."

"All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss."

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