“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has
risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ― C.S. Lewis
“Some people don't understand the promises they're making
when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the
promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the
Ring
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the
greatest of these is love.” ― Anonymous,
Holy Bible: King James Version
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas
but for scars.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It
is the belief that God will do what is right.” ― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones
“Sometimes beautiful
things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but
we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes
it pays to just have a little faith.” ― Lauren
Kate, Torment
“I am trying here to
prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him:
I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his
claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a
man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.
He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a
poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice.
Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something
worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a
demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not
come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He
has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Never be afraid to
trust an unknown future to a known God.” ―
Corrie ten Boom
“The function of
prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who
prays.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
“And
still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You
owe me."
Look
what happens with love like that.
It
lights up the sky.”
―
Hafez
“You must not lose
faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are
dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” ― Mahatma
Gandhi
“I have come to
accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself
to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing
in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as
we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the
unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that
so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” ― C. JoyBell
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he
loves.” ― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I
Love
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute,
yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
“I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship
rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The
word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems
like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to
find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to
get what they want.” ― Greg Behrendt
“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot
be taken from us; it is a gift.”
―
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself
the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would
suffice?” ― C.S. Lewis
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because
they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from
nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head
pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments
when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give
myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson
Mandela
“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
“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it
seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of
you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful
thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is
yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll
fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't
have to put it back in the sky again.” ― C.
JoyBell C.
“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will
endure.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of
the King
“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
“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
“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to
hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk
away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for
granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together.
Powerful stuff.” ― Jon Katz