All Quotes By Tag: Faith
“Faith tells me that God´s right even when I want to disagree.”
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“The longer I’ve walked with God the more I’ve realized that being thankful is vigorously celebrating what’s right in the world while anticipating that what’s wrong with it will soon follow suit.”
“Trust in the gods, They will supply? Hardly. He wondered suddenly if it was as hard for the gods to have faith in Ingrey as it was for him to have faith in Them, and a weird wild urge to show Them how it should be done swept him for a moment.”
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“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren’t so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”
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“What in the world would drive an author to write his own death into the script, and then sentence himself to that very death by turning his fiction into fact? The fact is, you and I are that ‘what the world.”
“The greatest angst imaginable is to create something magnificent for those I love and then watch those I love utterly destroy the very thing that I created for them. And while I would surrender under the weight of the resulting carnage, God took a very different approach and surrendered His son to repair the carnage.”
“Peter rubbed his forehead. “I keep trying to distance myself, I do. I know we can’t be anything more than friends unless she’s a Christian. But, I don’t know, it doesn’t make sense. I just feel like God has me in her life for a reason.””I’m sure He does. The question is, are you okay if it’s not the reason that you want it to be? Then what?”
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“I suspect it means that God is pursuing her.” She fixed him with a long look. “Make sure you don’t get in the way.”
“I don’t try to figure out what God is going to do next. I just make certain that I’m prayed up enough so that I don’t miss it when He does it.”
“At the point that I have rigorously pressed out and reached the end of myself, I have in fact not even broached the place where God is about to begin. Therefore, a conclusion in my mind is barely a point of departure in God’s.”
“Some would say that paradise is the escapist ‘fiction’ of hapless minds caught up in the denial of a darkening world. But Christmas would say that the ‘paradise’ of escapist fiction has not a single shred of fiction in it at all.”
“It is the toughest thing in the world to spend your life battling with the person you love most on thr one thing neither of you can compromise on. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”
“Sometimes you have to do the hard thing to do the right thing. If it’s meant to be, God will work it out.”
“You know, the truth is that sometimes when people ask how you know that God exists, it’s hard to come up with one compelling reason. It’s often such a conglomeration of so many things that, put together, create the proof you need.”