Faith Quotes

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven

~ Thiruvalluvar

The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.

~ Gillian Bradshaw

Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray for them (we don’t) and our puddle-eyed children that their goldfish have gone to heaven (doubtful). When we lose our jobs we want to take comfort in the idea that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, but really, how can we? We have absolutely no idea what God has given us or what it might be for. We haven’t talked to Him in ages.

~ Heather Choate Davis

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

~ Mitch Albom

There are some things that you experience with God that you'll never be able to articulate this side of heaven.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…

~ Andrew Galasetti

And now it is time for my story to end, because we have finally reached the beginning.

~ Caroline Flohr

Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That is really very very not very good! My grandfather is weeping in Heaven, or he would if there were such a place, which there is not because religion is a mystification contrived by monarchists! Again! Again, and this time do it properly!

~ Nick Harkaway

You are equipped to change atmospheres. The first one is your own. Rise up. Speak to your mountains and they will fall. Partner with Heaven and see it come to your rescue.

~ Jenelle Dancel

We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.

~ Rob Lowe

Lord Foulgrin: You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole. (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)

~ Randy Alcorn

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

~ Aberjhani

Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Like most people, my views about ghosts and haunted places were traditional while growing up. I believed ghosts were human spirits. Not that I talked to many people about the subject or my experiences. I assumed people would think I was weird.

~ Kristine Mcguire

Church is not about learning how to be a moral person (though that is what the dominant narrative they hear tells them), it is a place where immoral individuals go in order to receive the grace of God.

~ Jonathan P. Hill

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.

~ Terryl L. Givens

Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.

~ Toni Sorenson

After twenty years of unbelief, doubt had become a habit. Doubting was easy, routine; it was my natural, instinctive reaction. Somewhere along the line I had stopped considering any other options. Doubt was my default. So choosing the blessing, the miracle, over coincidence had to be a conscious choice. I had to dismiss doubt as the crutch that it was, dismiss my gut instinct and embrace the more challenging alternative.

~ Michelle Derusha

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

~ Patricia Briggs

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

~ Terryl L. Givens

If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.

~ Christina Engela

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or cleaned from time to time, it loses its usefulness and cannot relate anymore to changed times and people.

~ Bhaskarananda

I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.

~ Hayley Williams

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.

~ Harold Edmund Stearns

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

~ John Stuart Mill

God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

~ Jim George

Communication is not a one-way street.

~ Jim George

May you find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be greatly encouraged!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Linked together as a team with one goal, we soon realized we were only as strong as our weakest link. But did we condemn the weakermember? That wouldn’t serve any purpose. Instead, the stronger guys responded by carrying more weight than the weaker teammate. Encouragement was key in reaching the top of the stadium, standing as one.Sometimes one person on your team may not be as strong as another. Strengths usually differ. Likewise, in an encounter with another, someone may have a different set of beliefs or ideas.To accomplish any goal, embracing the strengths and weaknesses of each member and compensating where necessary are the best ways to make it to the top.

~ Jake Byrne

No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.

~ Dana Arcuri

When you are discouraged, do not look down. Hold your head up high and you will see the face of God shining a light into your dark place.

~ Janet Autherine

Encouragement and praISE SHOULD BE ENDLESS. fAUTH BRINGS THEM TOGETHER.

~ Terry Alex

It's faith that will take you through and determination that will drive you.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn't God's fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He's given me.

~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us, it is an entity in itself.

~ Holly Sprink

Sharing our stories is a vital part of doing life together. The disciples shared their stories and changed the world, not because they were extraordinary men, but because they told about an extraordinary God.

~ Cindee Snider Re