Faith Quotes - Page 29

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you ever.

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.

We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

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

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us…leave. And if that happens, it’s amazing the lengths we’ll go to, to get them back.