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Faith.

Reflections on belief, trust, and the forces that guide us.

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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
02
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Carl Jung
03
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
04
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Martin Luther
05
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
06
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Isaac Newton
07
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine
08
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard
09
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
10
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
11
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Billy Graham
12
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
13
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus
14
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G.K. Chesterton
15
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
16
If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can't, choose their faith over your doubt.
Alan Cohen
17
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
18
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Elie Wiesel
19
God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
Billy Graham
20
Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.
Charles Spurgeon
21
Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
22
God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S Lewis
23
However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.
Charles Spurgeon
24
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal
25
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Anne Swetchine
26
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
27
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein
28
God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein
29
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
30
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Charles Spurgeon
31
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy Graham
32
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
33
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
Paulo Coelho
34
I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.
C.S Lewis
35
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck
36
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
37
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal
38
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther
39
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin Luther
40
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our soul, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
Paulo Coelho
41
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle
42
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
Anne Frank
43
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Ronald Reagan
44
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
45
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
46
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
47
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare
48
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy
49
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin Luther
50
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens