Faith
Quotes
Find
Your Own Light
“In
this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“Doubt
everything. Find your own light.”
―
Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
“Over
the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not
success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and
power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often
comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to
self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us
worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily
perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection.
As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left
alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again
that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to
be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the
greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice
that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core
truth of our existence.”
―
Henri J.M. Nouwen
“What
was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was
it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that
someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they
instantly understood why you did the things you did—and shared those same
beliefs?”
―
Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
“This
is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in
our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
―
Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place
“I
dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that
sometimes we just have to have faith.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“There
comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write
another book or simply close it.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“Now
very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then,
the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she
was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every
touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if
she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held
her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd
known she was as strong has he was.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“You
can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying
thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on
faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And
yet..”
―
Libba Bray
“To
have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold
of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and
float.”
―
Alan Wilson Watts
“You
do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all
going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered
by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
―
Thomas Merton
“belief
is the death of intelligence.”
―
Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten
oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
“I
have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I
had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed
insufficient for that day.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“Why
must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what
I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods
and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as
if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
―
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Follow
your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only
walls.”
―
Joseph Campbell
“Your
children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the
heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach
them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you
are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
―
Lisa Wingate
“Are
you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't
worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun
will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.”
―
Charles M. Schulz
“To
be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you
should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will
ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the
moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion
symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
―
Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
“Whether
or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon
our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability.
Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot
understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are
accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is
flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of
imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world
spinning out of control.”
―
Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
“There
are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than
speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God,
and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in
his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the
real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they
hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they
neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They
love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they
will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree,
but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not
stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .”
―
Charles Spurgeon
