All Quotes By Tag: Faith
“Worrying is not an act of God; it’s failing to act in the faith of His plan.”
“The people don’t care about theology. They are passion and fear and anger and they need gods to fuel that passion, soothe that fear, stoke that anger.”
“If there is a divine creator, some ultimate moral authority, then why do bad things happen to good people? And why would this deity create people at all, since people are such imperfect beings?”
“Today I Googled God. How happy He must be that I am searching for Him.”
“I cannot confuse the ‘battle’ with the ‘war’. For out of my weakness I am bound to lose a battle, but out of God’s strength I am guaranteed to win the war.”
“The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.”
“There’s one other thing I’d like to remind you of, my dear. There’ve been many times when you’ve sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, ‘What is a person permitted, once he’s realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn’t exist for him?’ Do you remember your answer?””I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: ‘If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he’d feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.”
“Far too often I attempt to create that which God has already created. And maybe what I need to ‘create’ is the understanding that I will always fail to outdo what God has already done.”
“God never intended us to do this on our own. God never anticipated as it was never in his plan, for you to do life alone.”
“My desire since adolescence to have a personal relationship with Jesus was coming true, and my heart beat hard with excitement.”
“Focus on God, Get ready to exceed expectation”
“Faith is what makes you, know you.”
“Living all out for God certainly doesn’t mean we’ll have a safe life. It’s not supposed to be safe-or particularly easy. That doesn’t mean it always has to be full of turmoil and trials; it just means we want so much of God that we’re willing to do whatever He asks us to do. It also means we have a rock-solid faith and a deep, abiding joy that doesn’t depend on our circumstances.”
“Humility means putting aside your interests and thinking about what your neighbor needs.”
“Our relationships should be defined by trust and mutual obligation, grounded in the unchanging love and faithfulness of Christ.”