faith

"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"

"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."

"Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment."

"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."

"Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all."

"Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength."

"Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic."

"Some are professors and others are possessors."

"Doubt everything. Find your own light."

"Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve."

"A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

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

"You can do anything you want to do, if you want to do it bad enough."

"...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death."

"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away."

"Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?"

"It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)"

"For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it."

"Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."