faith

"I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith."

"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."

"It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine."

"When has faith ever been about feelings?"

"There is no one true church, no one chosen people."

"Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction."

"The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned."

"Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement."

"What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith."

"Floating there I held onto faith. Because you can't know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. You can't know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by your side. You can't know when there'll be an unexpected detour that'll take you to the place where you were always meant to be."

"Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters."

"Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith."

"Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?"

"Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys."

"[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists."

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

"Just because I flap my arms, that doesn’t make me a bird. No, I’m a bird because I believe myself to be. That’s the power of faith."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap."

"practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how's, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and further distance you from your destination, but will also feed your mind with those fatal seeds of doubt that make failure inevitable"~ Awaken and Unleash your Victor"