faith

"Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you."

"That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save."

"Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you."

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

"Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window."

"In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve."

"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."

"Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them."

"Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith."

"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room -- room for the human mind."

"God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone."

"faith gaped at him"how the hell did you do this?"He looked at her as if she'd asked the dumbest question in history. "I'm brilliant."

"We are not asked to SEE,"said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?"We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?"

"It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without."

"For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!"

"Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you then you must ask yourself if you have the problem or is it really them? God doesn’t make us try so hard, only enemies do."

"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."

"You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking."

"For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God."