All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“[A] beautiful young mother of five had full faith in her Heavenly Father, in His plan, and in the eternal welfare of her family. She was securely tied back to God. She was totally faithful to covenants made with the Lord and with her husband. She loved her children but was at peace, despite her impending separation from them. She had faith in her future, and theirs too, because she had faith in our Heavenly Father and His Son.”

“He rejoices in the reason conferred on mankind but mistrusts the shifting sands of man’s ingenuity.”

“My dream, I have faith in you! Tell me that reality won’t vanquish you; it won’t crush my lively spirit into wafts of sorrowful aches, that’s what you should vow.I remember you, you used to make me smile for a hopeI have always desired,it made my pain worth its dreadfulness.I waited for the sunshine andit made me love and enjoy the rain.We were trapped by dense clouds, now I think I am free.. to breathe again.Like the sea waves,hope visits my shorecarrying the light for the frozen heartand the darkened soul.”

“Pretend that you believe, even to yourself. Do everything as if you are fearless. Repeat it to yourself so much, that if faith doesn’t come naturally, it comes as a practiced habit.”

“-¿Cómo sabes que hay un Dios?-¡Por la razón!-¿Qué es la razón?-Es un don doble: innato y adquirido-¿Dónde tiene su asiento?-En el corazón. desde el corazón asciende al cerebro y se establece ahí.”

“Inviting harmony into our lives can be as simple as smiling at someone who is downtrodden, because something as simple as a smile communicates human compassion and understanding.-Shenita Etwaroo”

“The myth of the radical animal rights activist is still alive and well today, thanks to some well-publicized stunts from over twenty years ago. I’m not going to throw paint on your fur coat, but I will look at you and be unable to see anything but suffering and a lack of compassion.”-Shenita Etwaroo”

“Life can be difficult and no one escapes its challenges. Sooner or later you will find yourself pressed to your limits. It may come in the form of a broken relationship, or unemployment, or a serious illness, or the death of a loved one. When it comes you will be tempted to define your life by that painful experience. Don’t succumb to that temptation.Refuse to define your life by any single event, whatever it may be. Its a real part of your life, but that is all–just a part.”

“„Noaptea ne e cel mai frică, jani. Dar dimineaţa, la lumină, ne regăsim curajul.”

“ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL THINK THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GET THERE, THEIR OWN WAY, AND IF WE DIDN’T FOLLOW IT, WE WOULD ALL GET LOST.”

“To combat the sin of self-sufficiency, we need a special kind of faith. It’s what I call Starbucks Rest Room Faith. Almost every Starbucks store has a sensor that controls the light in the rest room. You can’t just flip a switch, and you can’t make it go on by just waving your arm inside the door. You have to put your whole body into that dark room and trust that the light will come on as you enter. Faith in God is a lot like that. He doesn’t offer a safety net, He doesn’t let us hedge our bets, and He doesn’t give any guaranteed results ahead of time. We have to be all in before the light comes on.”

“I ONCE DISMISSED FAITH BECAUSE I VIEWED IT FROM AN INTELLECTUAL STANDPOINT, BUT FAITH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INTELLECT.”

“At some point, all you can do is pray. This is true whether or not you even believe in God.”

“I know. You are about to say that Satan lifts up the evil lords to thwart God’s power (that’s the standard argument, I believe) but you can’t have it both ways. If there is an all-powerful God who created everything, then He must have created Lucifer to become Satan. If He has a Divine Plan, then Satan is part of that plan—evil, hatred, misery, disease, squalor, death—these must all be part of the plan. Mordred and Malestair and their ilk are part of God’s plan. The other option is that Satan was a mistake. But if God made a mistake—especially one of that magnitude, one Hell of a mistake—how can you believe that He is all-knowing and all-powerful? It calls into question the supposedly ‘inevitable’ outcome of the cosmic battle between good and evil.”

“So you truly believe in nothing?” she asked.“No,” he coughed. “I don’t believe in anything—which isn’t the same as believing in nothing. Belief in nothing, it seems to me, takes quite as much faith as belief in something. I am utterly incapable of that kind of commitment.”