Faith Quotes - Page 35

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock, but my believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether or not he really did do it. So also with the story of Jesus walking on water: Believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether he really did do it. 'Belief' cannot be the basis for historical conclusions; it has no direct relevance.

How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.