faith

"I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint."

"My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!"

"Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark."

"Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade."

"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."

"And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me"

"I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen."

"So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...)"

"To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true."

"The earth has music for those who listen."

"Faith doesn't always come naturally but as we take those steps of faith, we notice little by little that our faith has grown and it isn't as hard as we first thought."

"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."

"If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today."

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear"

"Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness"is drawn in."

"A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted."

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

"He stepped back and threw his arms out."I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you."He tipped his head back and shouted to the sky:"Rose is in redBut never in blueSharp as a thornFights like one too."

"To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, "she said. "But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you."

"The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud."