Evidence of true faith is the determination to trust God when that which He allows makes no sense--and is utterly disagreeable.
A bowl of diligence and perseverance, a cup of faith and a pinch of inspiration mixed with a spoon of contentment are the ingredients of a delicious success. Cook yours well.
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light...
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.
A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.
Saito: Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!
A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
Vance: Misery. Sadness. Loss of Faith. No reason to Live... This is perfect for you.
Stay faithful to consciousness, rest everything is illusion including your mind. Simply be aware without adulterations from intellegience.
Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.
