faith

"... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ..."

"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."

"Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you."

"faith gaped at him"how the hell did you do this?"He looked at her as if she'd asked the dumbest question in history. "I'm brilliant."

"The road to hell isn't paved with gold, it's paved with faith. Faith in a dollar that's backed by a belief that people have faith in other people's belief in it."

"when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus"

"In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down."

"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."

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."

"One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!"

"There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things."

"Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go."

"History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty."

"God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying God’s guidance to fit your own needs."

"He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that."

"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."

"If you can see the invisible, God will do the impossible."

"I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake."

"Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason."

"Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely."