Faith
Quotes - Go where your best prayers take you
“In
the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and
illusion - which is dangerous.”
―
Elie Wiesel, Night
“There
is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple
kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?”
I
shook my head, inching away from him.
“Faith,”
he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.”
―
Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
“When
oppressed and lost people see your supernatural life shining so bright, they
are attracted! They are attracted to the Jesus in you.”
― Kathryn
Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
“Confidence
in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”
―
michel de montaigne
“What
is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all
these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get
thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in
something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical
equations then everyone would believe.”
―
Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
“There
isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact
point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times
fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile.”
―
Nikki Rowe
“Leap,
and the net will appear.”
―
Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“But
for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within,
and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.”
―
Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
“Go
where your best prayers take you.”
―
Frederick Buechner
“Wait
on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary
word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and
it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in
the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do
nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.”
―
J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“And
my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ
Jesus.”
―
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: New American Standard Version, NASB
“A
man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
―
Leonard Ravenhill
“Sometimes
I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the
faithful.”
―
Paul Tillich
“To
have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to
accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as
primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a
system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security,
makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage
to judge certain values as of ultimate concern—and to take the jump and to
stake everything on these values.”
―
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
“I've
got a theory, it could be bunnies...
I've
got a theor-
Bunnies
aren't just cute like everybody supposes
They've
got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And
what's with all the carrots-?
What
do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies,
bunnies it must be bunnies!
...or
maybe midgets...”
―
Joss Whedon Buffy the Vampire Slayer
“There
are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
shallow:
Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you
know
ain't so'.”
―
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Challenge
a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And
when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically
fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to
up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the
belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three
persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad.
When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other
people who seem to be doing just fine without them--or worse, who credibly
rebut them--they are in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a
belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt
to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to
everything that makes their lives meaningful.”
―
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
