All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“When you follow God in absolute faith, you become a leader.”

“Never lose faith. When the world rears its ugly face at you and shows you how truly despicable it can be, believe that there is still something worth saving beneath its darkness.”

“Something is never taken away from you without being replaced with something greater. You may have to wait for it however. It’s a test of faith.”

“Breathlessly you reach the station just as the train is arriving! But alas, the train doesn’t stop. It keeps going. It doesn’t care how forlorn you look as it passes by. It doesn’t even see you! But wait. What’s that sound in the distance? Another train is coming soon and it is yours. A train that will take you to a more beautiful place.”

“Before you abandon your partner, ask yourself what is missing and see if you can reach down inside your own heart and bring it forth. Faith. Light. Unconditional Love. It is there, hiding perhaps underneath a dark historic shroud of anger, disappointment, shame or resentment. You will find the hidden treasure if you want to. It is all inside of you.”

“Here was a people. A family. A faith. Her people. Her family. Her faith. Here was a silence broken.”

“But faith? The truth is, I am less certain of more things than I have ever been before. I have many more questions than I have answers. but I have begun to discover this thing called grace: the rumour that I am loved beyond measure, just as I am.”

“The proof comes after belief, not before.”

“Was the challenge truly impossible, or was that in fact a product of my attitude? And if I had to make something impossible, the odds are that it wasn’t and it is not.”

“They sharpen themselves on each other; each by turn is blade and whetstone; when talk falls to faith and reason they argue readily, startling themselves by growing swiftly bad-tempered (‘You don’t understand!’ ‘How can I understand when you do not even make attempts at speaking sense?’).”

“My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”

“Button had been filled with tremendous hope that the first chapter would be sold to a magazine as a story, but she had reckoned without God. The picture was clear now, for the first chapter should not have been printed that way, separated from the rest of the story. Although she had shed many a year with each subsequent rejection slip from various magazine editors, now she was thankful for them. How shortsighted humans are, she was thinking. God sees clearly far into eternity and He had known it was for Button’s best interest not to succeed with those magazines for if she had, she wouldn’t today be hugging this book to her heart”

“There is freedom like forgiveness.”

“There is no freedom like forgiveness.”

“But which one is right? The real gods? The truth?’ I asked.Balthazar smiled gently, as if speaking to a very slow child. ‘That is not for us to judge. Each of us believes what seems true enough to him, and allows others the same luxury. Who can know what happened in the dim dawn of the world? We can barely decide what to have for breakfast without a theological debate – the Nurian law is polite disagreement. We do our best with how the world appears to our own eyes.”