Quotes of: Good-faith Keyword

Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underne...

Lauren London

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

Mark Udall

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

Dennis Prager

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

David Ogden Stiers

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

Ellis Peters

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

Jon Katz

Hot today, cold tomorrow! Phew! Thank Goodness, God is only moved by faith and not by our feelings.

Buky Ojelabi

Why is being a servant such an important aspect of faith? It’s simple. If you cannot obey and serve someone you can see, will you really be able to obey and serve God whom you cannot?

21 Stories of Faith: Real People, Real Stories, Real Faith

We were learning what "living on faith" really means, and God was providing for us very much like he provided for the Israelites in the desert - just the basics, just enough, and just in time.

21 Stories of Faith: Real People, Real Stories, Real Faith

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.

When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

G.I. Gurdjieff

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behavior reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine...

Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

But Jesus replied, 'Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?'...From his statement we see that Jesus clearly connects their fear with their lack of faith. Fear is the opposite of faith. When we have faith we're not afraid. When we're afraid, it's be...

Grace Mally

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith al...

Jayber Crow

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith al...

Jayber Crow

Catholicism - all the perversions of Christianity - is not a faith of love. It is a faith of fear. Obey, be good, toe the line, and heaven is yours, the first prize in the lottery of eternity. Disobey, react, cut the lifeline, and never-ceasing damna...

A Very Private Gentleman

As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not rec...

The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture

I once believed in faith - that if I patiently waited, something good will happen. But at the end of the chapter, I found myself devastated. Years have gone by and I'm back at chapter one again. I've tried several times already and ended up in the sa...

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