"Does your love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyond… why can’t it seem to find me?"
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"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)"
"He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence."
"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."
"Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy."
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
"[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I serve enough this week?* When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks without guilt, worry or fear. As long as you are running, you're safe."
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
"Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement."
"[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists."
"Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives."
"to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God."
"When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle."
"Faith consists in believing what reason cannot."
"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."
"Now listen. Faith is like oxygen. It keeps you afloat at all times. Sometimes you need it. Sometimes you don’t. but when you do need it you better be practiced at having faith, otherwise it won’t work. That’s why the missionaries built all the churches. Before we got those churches we weren’t practicing enough. That’s what prayers are for—practice, children. Practice."
"Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith."
"The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history."
"The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God."
"This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity."