faith

"The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe."

"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."

"Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived."

"Hope and faith underlie a promise,and love energizes men to realize it."

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

"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."

"Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)"

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."

"I think a funny picture would have a caption that read, “Believe in yourself,” with an accompanying image of a wilting flower."

"Worry looks back, Hope looks forward, but Faith always looks up."

"That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . ."

"I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy"is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want."

"Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love."

"There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet."

"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

"For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ."

"The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power."

"God tests, but he does not tempt."

"Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't even know they're connected. Father and Lily were two sides of the same coin, I've decided, and maybe I am the space in between."

"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens"