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9af1cf9 Keep Goin being-positive persistence faith inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational never-give-up adversity authentic-living Roy T. Bennett
9eab75a I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you. winds-of-life flying-spirit faith trust inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living hope life inspirational flying winds uplifting flight belief direction wings C. JoyBell C.
0b79e5a Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward. being-positive start-up courage faith inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational brave moving-forward authentic-living Roy T. Bennett
9c83e30 A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it's up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again. cherishing life-and-learning stars letting-go faith learning treasure life-and-living life-lessons hope life inspirational heartwarming C. JoyBell C.
9e3e075 Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. faith god love inspirational Joni Eareckson Tada
4eab512 Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. faith death wisdom inspirational blindness Helen Keller
89ebd2f "No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here's a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages 1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn't stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5. 3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on "Bright Eyes." 4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank. 5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13. 6) Nadia Comaneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14. 7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15. 8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil. 9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19. 10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961. 11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936. 12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23 13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24 14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record 15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures "David" and "Pieta" by age 28 18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest 23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech "I Have a Dream." 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions. 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver's order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger 31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out. 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games" 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out. 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa. 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president. 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels. 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat". 40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived 41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out 43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US opportunities excuses opportunity faith confidence motivation success love isnpiration olympics president effort discipline failure Pablo
92aceca The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. profound faith inspirational flying birds wings J.M. Barrie
b8822d6 To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you. christianity faith obedience C.S. Lewis
e403f96 There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. faith inspirational Marilynne Robinson
2eaed87 Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait opportunity faith inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational calm growth patience Roy T. Bennett
d61cfe5 In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. faith optimism faramir J.R.R. Tolkien
b5e7c63 Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was. faith strength love jace-wayland Cassandra Clare
1ea59e8 To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. faith hope love inspirational forgiveness G.K. Chesterton
289dc7a To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
8305d07 Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. faith belief Mitch Albom
1417946 There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . . faith bible inspirational christian Charles Spurgeon
eb4a9f5 We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. christianity faith religion inspirational Martin Luther
5f257a9 Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky--up--up--up--into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer. prayer faith inspiration L.M. Montgomery
23b537e No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. magic world faith mystery R.A. Salvatore
bc221ad The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. jesus faith spirituality god Rob Bell
9ceb60e Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. faith inspirational assurance aspiration Rabindranath Tagore
6852ef9 Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. faith inspirational christian-behavior Beatrix Potter
5b8de9b To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him gratitude faith religion inspirational Thomas Merton
8c09d2c Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
0ab6b31 About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough--and even miraculous enough if you insist--I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about? Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don't believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart's content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others--while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity--so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one's everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities... but there, there. Enough. existence morality faith religion god life secular-ethics supernaturalism meaning-of-life debate existentialism ethics materialism naturalism atheism respect self-respect Christopher Hitchens
2be2c92 No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. faith hope inspirational never-give-up Pittacus Lore
896a014 God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one faith love inspirational confusion Rumi
0289df7 Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. faith Elisabeth Elliot
09b6314 "For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time." grief loss faith stillbirth grieving C.S. Lewis
b8ff42c You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. doubt faith Robert M. Pirsig
2a9a7cd Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. faith trust Paulo Coelho
7271e2d This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. faith inspiration Terry Tempest Williams
f3f2da5 I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it. faith Elisabeth Elliot
463bb49 Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. divine-works god-like sympathy worth jesus empathy compassion faith life inspirational consideration good-works works divine-love unconditional-love the-one christ-like giving helping-others value poor beautiful Criss Jami
0d9fab8 Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be. pain faith living positivity happiness hope life love stoicism misery T.H. White
9da1f37 Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. faith parental-love parents child parenthood Richard Dawkins
1bfed69 Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace. faith inspirational Ezra Taft Benson
3043f04 This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. faith truth long-process desperate thread patience Haruki Murakami
28bc19f 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 inspirational Jim Butcher
8dc637e Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,... faith religion will Paulo Coelho
031ee46 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1-corinthians-13 faith love inspirational scripture Anonymous
5a5f366 And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. faith god jesus-christ Anonymous
df14379 To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. doubt faith religion scepticism dogma experience kool-aid Christopher Hitchens
96bb1c8 I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you. harry-potter faith inspirational dumbledore J.K. Rowling
f7432b1 "Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? -- in ancient astronauts? -- in the Bermuda triangle? -- in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. faith ufo skepticism Isaac Asimov
f6bc078 Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring) faith inspirational self-worth Lisa Kleypas
f7c6244 It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
32b5cc1 "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you." harry-potter faith inspirational J.K. Rowling
4de2b16 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. faith god love philosophy truth Anonymous
e6e8f37 My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. grief loss faith stillbirth grieving C.S. Lewis
4f51118 Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward - your breakthrough may be just around the corner. breakthrough just-around-the-corner stay-positive faith inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational keep-moving-forward Roy T. Bennett
298f634 You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart. faith inspirational Mitch Albom
c85ff47 If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. faith science philosophy scientific-method Robert A. Heinlein
a6b67e4 Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. faith inspirational St. Augustine of Hippo
0632d69 Day after day, day after day revenge faith god inspirational curse Samuel Taylor Coleridge
16b58ef The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. faith levithan precarious word David Levithan
9446fd9 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. faith god grace Anonymous
7edcb86 Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. faith holocaust Elie Wiesel
6d2f3da I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. faith god Jonathan Safran Foer
77a4e0f "You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. faith hope life job Nicholas Sparks
c796d43 It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. faith inspirational Maya Angelou
6e0c8ce Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. faith inspirational Corrie Ten Boom
ad46f9d Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands. bushel trusting-god faith trust inspirational Lynn Austin
cf60595 I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. ( ) faith everlasting-life sydney-carton tale-of-two-cities ever-after charles-dickens resurrection paradise Anonymous
e415c12 No matter how many people believe or don't believe in you, you must b faith life inspirational attitude believe pablo
052dfb5 Faith isn't never having any doubts; it's having what you need to overcome them. faith julian-blackthorn Cassandra Clare
d97b208 Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house. grief loss faith death stillbirth grieving C.S. Lewis
73c10dd If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. faith inspirational endurance sanctification lds patience Sheri L. Dew
3156d8a Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith. faith inspirational Francine Rivers
b496bf2 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. jesus faith religion god religious christ Anonymous
eaf6eaf If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it. action bravery doubt feelings follow-your-dreams good-enough just-do-something passion perseverance pursue-your-dreams risk take-action courage musician persistence faith fear confidence dreams motivational success inspirational actor just-do-it athlete concern business encouraging career security ambition determination contentment skill worry emotions gift talent insecurity Criss Jami
89c0dec "He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should have been, there was only a wild foliage of ferns and flowers. There was a small, smiling face drawn over the heart. To find the balance you want," Ketut spoke through his translator, "this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God." faith Elizabeth Gilbert
11d734d Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen. (James 5:13-16) happy prayer faith inspiration spirituality heal healing troubles miracles pray sing sin Anonymous
a0f44c1 They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced him and Huxley and Freud, all smiles. And then we discovered that Darwin and our religions didn't mix. Or at least we didn't think they did. We were fools. We tried to budge Darwin and Huxley and Freud. They wouldn't move very well. So, like idiots, we tried knocking down religion. We succeeded pretty well. We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answer to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are lost people. nature faith religion huxley freud darwin lost Ray Bradbury
2498e46 While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane. faith religion belief dogma Sam Harris
801b153 I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. faith religion god atheist Jim Butcher
6d202f2 There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. faith perspective focus fears suspense C.S. Lewis
14f7114 And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. faith reason religion science scepticism belief principles Christopher Hitchens
336ffed My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way faith funny relationship death religion god humor life love truth inspirational friend Ali Shariati
fd34570 What you do matters -- but not much. What yo faith inspirational works Catherine Doherty
611a834 Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right? magic faith fairies stories Neil Gaiman
c0796b6 By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. faith philosophy Marion Zimmer Bradley
0712eb0 "We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men. Unamuno might be describing the artist as well as the Christian as he writes, "Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself." suffering doubt faith god christian-living Madeleine L'Engle
a1724bb God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside. prayer faith god recover fears Paulo Coelho
5160ca5 If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything. faith god Peter Kreeft
c33d468 There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it? faith spiritual Robert A. Heinlein
16d32f9 We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith. faith death Stephen King
800f84b Faith. Closely followed--in view of the overall shortage of time--by patience. faith death religion life virtues patience Christopher Hitchens
8fda964 Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts. faith Orson Scott Card
2df2f1d When he says we're forgiven, let's unload the guilt. When he says we're valuable, let's believe him. . . . When he says we're provided for, let's stop worrying. God's efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless faith inspirational guilt Max Lucado
0eb19c3 The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful. faith religion islam Robert Ferrigno
ab3ac8d If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. faith motivation heart Timothy Keller
e0f708f Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument. faith religion blind-faith discussion judaism doctrine disagreement shouting freedom-of-thought independent-thought jews Iain Pears
8d40b9c Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest. relationships faith Erin McCarthy
093844f Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced. faith life memory Markus Zusak
0471d49 Twelve minutes. I can give you that. faith friendship hope titan bob Rick Riordan
6e352d3 Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When can I learn what I have here neglected to learn? Or is it true that death will cut off and put an end to all care and all feeling? This is something to be inquired into. But no, this cannot be true. It is not for nothing, it is not meaningless that all over the world is displayed the high and towering authority of the Christian faith. Such great and wonderful things would never have been done for us by God, if the life of the soul were to end with the death of the body. Why then do I delay? Why do I not abandon my hopes of this world and devote myself entirely to the search for God and for the happy life? faith religion inspirational confessions christian Augustine of Hippo
a2193b5 The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that. christianity faith god boast boasting god-s-love christian Max Lucado
f6e159b Faith is believing in something you know isn't true. faith religion truth believe Tom Robbins
48df226 Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. war stars faith inspiration spirituality hope marvelousmonday-quotes national-novel-writing-month quotes-by-famous-authors quotes-by-famous-poets the-soul world-suicide-prevention-day classic-quotes peacism nanowrimo silver grace terrorism mercy souls peace ignorance survival Aberjhani
8fc915c "Matthew 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." christianity faith theology Anonymous
ae70715 Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed. history joy humanity faith spirituality philosophy multiculturalità rebith rejuvenation remembering-september-11 teaching-diversity world-suicide-prevention-day multiculturalismo famous-quotes-from-classic-books haikus national-history-day personal-growth healing multiculturalism americans haiku patriotism Aberjhani
7df3fb8 This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. violence tragedy pain war grief faith fear hope love anguish casualties-of-war child-victims-of-war children-killed-in-war gun-laws peacemaking russia-and-ukraine-conflict spiritual-love gun-violence world-suicide-prevention-day syrian-civil-war unconditional-love agape-love conflict-resolution nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings peace-movement peace Aberjhani
d8f9714 What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. heaven faith inspiration inspirational-quotes spirituality hope positive-motivation healing recovery hell Aberjhani
df255b6 The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. faith friendship George Eliot
f306660 "We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?" faith Elisabeth Elliot
3165dce ...and when is enough proof enough? faith proof Jonathan Safran Foer
ecdd2dc Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. faith inspirational-quotes life wisdom inspirational leanring Dan Millman
196c081 Two natures beat within my breast The one is foul, the one is blessed The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate. -Anonymous faith christian-living Tara Leigh Cobble
dc53499 Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. faith inspiration spirituality dreams inspirational positive-motivation mystical-poetry mystical-powers metaphysics power Aberjhani
6703c6f Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom's sharp peaks. faith inspirational-quotes dreams hope wisdom poem-in-your-pocket-day positive-motivation vision-dream metaphysical famous-quotes-from-classic-books haikus healing visions haiku Aberjhani
b2178be Find what you want. I will find you. faith Lloyd Alexander
6cdd55d "If Feyre can't be bothered to listen to orders, then I can't be held accountable for the consequences." "Accountable?" I sputtered, placing my hands flat on the table. "You cornered me in the hall like a wolf with a rabbit!" Lucien propped an arm on the table and covered his mouth with has hand, his russet eye bright. faith funny sarah-j-maas feyre tamlin lucien Sarah J Maas
7a47d33 Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him faith hope love truth inspirational Karen Kingsbury
c84f7e1 [I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions. faith religion sam harris delusion Sam Harris
1267898 "Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.' 'I understand the concept. It's just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.' 'Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man's starvation, war, sickness . . .' 'Exactly!' Chartrand knew the camerlengo would understand. 'Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and has the power to change our situation, He would prevent our pain, wouldn't He?' The camerlengo frowned. 'Would He?' Chartrand felt uneasy. Had he overstepped his bounds? Was this one of those religious questions you just didn't ask? 'Well . . . if God loves us, and He can protect us, He would have to. It seems He is either omnipotent and uncaring, or benevolent and powerless to help.' 'Do you have children, Lieutenant?' Chartrand flushed. 'No, signore.' 'Imagine you had an eight-year-old son . . . would you love him?' 'Of course.' 'Would you let him skateboard?' Chartrand did a double take. The camerlengo always seemed oddly "in touch" for a clergyman. 'Yeah, I guess,' Chartrand said. 'Sure, I'd let him skateboard, but I'd tell him to be careful.' 'So as this child's father, you would give him some basic, good advice and then let him go off and make his own mistakes?' 'I wouldn't run behind him and mollycoddle him if that's what you mean.' 'But what if he fell and skinned his knee?' 'He would learn to be more careful.' The camerlengo smiled. 'So although you have the power to interfere and prevent your child's pain, you would choose to show your love by letting him learn his own lessons?' 'Of course. Pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn.' The camerlengo nodded. 'Exactly." faith religion god omnipotence paradox Dan Brown
a1e1219 Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard. faith beliefs Beth Revis
c5f4cbe There is no one true church, no one chosen people. people faith church Terry Tempest Williams
67dc250 Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. faith spirituality religion science dan-brown Dan Brown
ae9aff7 Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners. doubt faith inspiration religion Rob Bell
e49f320 "But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn't his point. He's often not talking about "beliefs" as we think of them--he's talking about anger and lust and indifference. He's talking about the state of his listeners' hearts, about how they conduct themselves, how they interact with their neighbors, about the kind of effect they have on the world." -- faith religion inspirtational theology Rob Bell
9826aec Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of our imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you. It is like a book on a shelf. But, as Dostoyevsky says, 'love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams' ( ). prayer faith Peter Kreeft
8db6499 Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful...Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump to be a mistake. Meantime, let us be quite clear, it is not merely the comfort of the simple--though it is that too, much to its glory--it is a formidable intellectual position with which most of the first-class minds of the human race, century in and century out, have concurred, each in his own way....speaking of crutches--Freud can be a crutch, Marx can be a crutch, rationalism can be a crutch, and atheism can be two canes and a pair of iron braces. We none of us have all the answers, nor are we likely to have. But in the country of the halt, the man who is surest he has no limp may be the worst-crippled. faith Herman Wouk
86fc7f7 I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way. faith realism Flannery O'Connor
272b6fb "I love you," was his reply. "I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe in you, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us." -- faith trust family love best-interests despite replies mothers see sight V.C. Andrews
f959192 Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable. violence war faith wisdom hate-crimes civil-unrest faith-in-humanity peacism political-aggression political-turmoil syrian-civil-war we-can-do-better intolerance war-crimes black-history-month national-history-day nonviolent-conflict-resolution hope-for-the-future ukraine bigotry peace-movement cruelty prophecy peace crimean-war diplomacy russia W.E.B. Du Bois
e484d22 This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. grief sorrow compassion faith inspiration inspirational-quotes spirituality hope classic-quotes classic-poems healing-grief inspiration-for-the-soul newtown-connecticut palaces pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter recovery-from-grief savannah-authors-and-poets spiritual-transformation infinity roses pearls rebirth resurrection survival transformation recovery Aberjhani
fee470d Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. courage humanity faith leadership spirituality dreams strength hope love agape-love american-history black-history-month compassion-heals-lives conflict-resolution famous-authors famous-speeches great-leaders human-rights-day i-have-a-dream-speech martin-luther-king-day martin-luther-king-jr mlk-day mlkdream50 national-history-day nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings spiritual-visions voting-rights-act-of-1965 nonviolence civil-rights-movement Aberjhani
4c5a056 "If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory." letting-go faith god life glory thankfulness hearts Elisabeth Elliot
6cc9f9c I started having doubts right on top of my certainty. faith David James Duncan
59443c4 We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. faith love truth Peter Kreeft
025a911 The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. faith god love Evelyn Waugh
e2eb424 The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives. faith life truth wisdom p315 mediocrity Fulton J. Sheen
3d4f96f "Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love." faith love gifting journey Lois Lowry
c201e62 It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. faith religion Marilynne Robinson
df04892 This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. faith religion god lamentation night Elie Wiesel
a089c12 It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst! christianity faith belief russia Fyodor Dostoyevsky
a45934e Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith. prayer faith doubts weakness humility Flannery O'Connor
fbebaf8 Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man? equality history faith government Howard Zinn
33facb7 There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at home, start with our genocidal treatment of the Native Americans, add a couple hundred years of slavery, along with our denial of entry to Jewish refugees fleeing the death camps of the Third Reich, stir in our collusion with a long list of modern despots and our subsequent disregard for their appalling human rights records, add our bombing of Cambodia and the Pentagon Papers to taste, and then top with our recent refusals to sign the Kyoto protocol for greenhouse emissions, to support any ban on land mines, and to submit ourselves to the rulings of the International Criminal Court. The result should smell of death, hypocrisy, and fresh brimstone. faith religion terrorism Sam Harris
071d2b8 "What the hell are you getting so upset about?" he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. "I thought you didn't believe in God." "I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be." faith Joseph Heller
f24d558 Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly. lovely words spirit faith god gentle day mean quiet nice Elizabeth George
b9b1f35 because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. faith inspirational Rob Bell
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