Faith
Quotes
The Simple
Path
According
to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications
that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness.
The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore.
You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you
encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more
synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually
experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the
Butterfly)”
―
Deepak Chopra, SynchroDestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to
Create Miracles
“Some
things have to be believed to be seen.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle
“Faith
is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
―
Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Well,
it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true
that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A
greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about
earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece
of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there
too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.”
―
Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
“You
picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at
the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need
another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have
faith.”
―
Greg Behrendt , He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to
Understanding Guys
“Love
meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to
catch you at the bottom.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
“The
Simple Path
Silence
is Prayer
Prayer
is Faith
Faith
is Love
Love
is Service
The
Fruit of Service is Peace”
―
Mother Teresa
“Rejection
is an opportunity for your selection.”
―
Bernard Branson
“We
are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”
―
Martin Luther
“No,
I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to
live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is
a world without faith.”
―
R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
“No pain
that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our
education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude
and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we
endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our
souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the
children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and
tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which
will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”
―
Orson F. Whitney
“The
most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and
spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“The
moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no
longer dealing with God.”
―
Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“Faith
consists in believing what reason cannot.”
―
Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire
“Faith
is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the
answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the
destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not
be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance
policy.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Faith
is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
―
Rabindranath Tagore
“When
you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the
darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen:
either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how
to fly.”
―
Edward Teller
“Work
without love is slavery.”
―
Mother Teresa
“As
a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
―
Leonardo da Vinci
“If
we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're
supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy
the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more
pleasurable than the experience itself.”
―
Goldie Hawn
