Quotes about Faith

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. 

+Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God have mercy on me the sinner+

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Remain faithful to the light... Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds.

...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be erroneous to see in the Christians' unloving behavior toward one another a refutation of Christ's message of love...'

This Road called Life.........


There is no destination on this Road.
It is constant awakening, and reawakening,
discovery after discovery.

Awakening is like waking up after a long nap
and feeling like you have been sleeping your life away;
caught in the mundane rituals of living.

The learning process on this road is never finished.
There is no Master degree, there is no certification.
There is only the point where we Cross over
to the Blue Road of Spirit
and look upon this life
and see the beauty and magnificence
of it in the Great Web;
Of the lessons learned,
and the Lives touched.

Marianne Goldweber

I may not be the one you asked for. I may not be the one you expect. I am however, the one who was sent.

Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

Sometimes don't you find things don't happen exactly as we expected but they come around anyway.... and often in better ways than we had even EVER dreamed?

 I think that's the power of the Great Spirit/God working in our lives. God always does seem to have a plan in our very best interest...

It's not the getting there, but the journey that counts as so often is said... and the Journey is filled with the Joyful and the Sorrowful, the Glorious and the Bittersweet and the LONGING.l

True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.

Truth is Evidence of Love and Nothing Can Destroy the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally.

In that moment, there was no place for doubt. I was sitting with the supreme being.  I had always sat beside her.  She was inside of me.

Happiness
A state you dare not enter
    with hopes of staying,
quicksand in the marshes, and all

the roads leading to a castle
    that doesn’t exist.
But there it is, as promised,

with its perfect bridge above
    the crocodiles,
and its doors forever open.

Religion is a helping hand that ends up in your pocket.

Mankind owns four things
that are no good at sea:
rudder, anchor, oars
and the fear of going down.

Religion is the branding of spirituality.

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith.  He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

 My own veneration for other faiths is the same as 
that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.

We are heading for some rough times for a while but remember that long term we shall overcome. Keep that in mind when you are in a bad situation, it shall pass.

I find the notion of faith as a protection from suffering or pain particularly interesting. Faith is beyond pain & suffering. People often look at faith from their own point of view instead of The Lord's. People often pray for things that they want with some expectation of wish fulfillment. The Lord is not your fairy godmother. True faith does not depend on wish fulfillment or miracles to sustain itself.