faith

"Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams."

"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."

"The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility."

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."

"Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens."

"Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security."

"You have such faith,” he tells me. “Let it be bigger than your fears."

"I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that."

"The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace"

"Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others."

"Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory"

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

"Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it."

"It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost."

"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."

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

"أتعلم لو كنت بقربي الآن ؟لكنت ضممتك إلي بكل ما أوتيت من عشق وشوق إليك ..ووضعت رأسي على قلبك الذي لطالما أدمنت هواه حد الثمالة !وسألتك بوجع هذه الأرض وماحوت :بربك لمَ أبعدتني عنك ؟"

"A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive."

"Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question."

"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."