All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“I’m not a Wiccan. I’m not big on churches of any kind, despite the fact that I’ve spoken, face-to-face, with an archangel of the Almighty.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 going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine.Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others–even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.Faith is a power of its own, and one even more elusive and difficult to define than magic.”

“Maybe that’s why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward…just patience and faith.”

“With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers.”

“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”

“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. ”

“For if there’s no everlasting God, there’s no such thing as virtue, and there’s no need of it.”

“Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.”

“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 the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”

“with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26″).”

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

“Although, I admit, I desire,Occasionally, some backtalkFrom the mute sky, I can’t honestly complain:A certain minor light may stillLean incandescentOut of kitchen table or chairAs if a celestial burning tookPossession of the most obtuse objects now and then — ”

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

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

“We see them as they cannot, will not, see each other–we see his heart in the way he looks at her; we see her soul calling out for his every touch. It would be so easy if they could only see inside each other as we can.And yet, there is beauty in the way they find each other: slowly, in a fragile dance of sidelong glances and accidental touches. To see them come together, souls binding without knowing each other as we do, without being certain of what the other’s heart holds, is to learn something new…Faith.”