Faith Quotes - Page 22

• I talk to God but the sky is empty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, God, Christian

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

  Marvin Sapp

  God, Christian, Confidence

  Song: My Testimony

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• Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.

  Peter Canisius

  Catholic, Enemy, Church

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• God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

  Robert Jastrow

  Bible, Dream, Ignorance

  God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

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• We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Love, God, Christian

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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• Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

  Langston Hughes

  God, Christian, Religious

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.156, University of Missouri Press

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• We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Optimistic, Positivity, Night

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• Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

  Timothy Keller

  Doubt, Religion, Belief

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

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• True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.

  Menno Simons

  Religious, Lying, Clothes

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• If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sports, Running, Endurance

  "This Inspiring, Blind Young Man Is Running the NYC Marathon to Save Lives" by Sibylle Eschapasse, www.theepochtimes.com. October 29, 2015.

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• 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.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Bible, God, Religious

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.

  Mary Karr

  Family, Baby, Horse

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• 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

  God, Christian, Education

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. Thus God, not man, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.

  Loraine Boettner

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Real, Believe

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

  Penn Jillette

  Life, Hate, Believe

  "A Gift of a Bible". "Penn Says" episode 192, videolog on Crackle.com, December 9, 2008.

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• My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

  Anne Rice

  God, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

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• Believe everything you read

  Kurt Cobain

  Trust, Believe, Book

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• Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Bible, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2015

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• In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

  Tariq Ramadan

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Inspirational, Hope, Kindness

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• Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Relationship, Truth

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• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Christian, Religious

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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