faith

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further."

"For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true"

"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."

"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."

"Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced."

"God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us."

"There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God."

"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

"To become one who believes two become one, you need love in your life."

"...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him."

"Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy."

"We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal."

"Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward...just patience and faith."

"Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in."

"We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone."

"When God has specially promised the thing, we are bound to believe we shall recieve it when we pray for it. You have no right to put in an 'if', and say, 'Lord, if it be thy will..."This is to insult God. To put an 'if' in God's promise when God has put none there, is tantamount to charging God with being insincere."

"True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory."

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

"When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."