Quotes of: Religious-faith Keyword

Be of good cheer, carrying a kind of excited anticipation of what your God has in store for you next... this is a powerful kind of faith... it moves mountains.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

With faith the size of a mustard seed, you can indeed move a mountain, but you can hardly be expected to garnish your sandwich.

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

The Age of Reason

His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not.

Arcadia

Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And then that thrilling quiet of which she had never felt any need to speak.

Home

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

Life is hard. If anyone tells you otherwise, they're lying. But life without faith is even harder.

Hungry for God ... Starving for Time - Five-Minute Devotions for Busy Women

No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves to the pressures of our peers. We are slaves to our own ideologies and faiths.

The Insurrectionist

I’ve got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

The Impossible Possible

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

If we want to raise children who will remain faithful to Christ and His Church, they need to see fathers on their knees in prayer.

Journey to Heaven: A Road Map for Catholic Men

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Keeping Faith

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

The Realm of Possibility

How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them-you go on the bridge because you trust it will not fall the fingers will clasp because we trust them to.

The Realm of Possibility

Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's provably true, then the existence of God is proven and there's no room for faith.

Snow Crash

The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams.

Sarah Canary

There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

...pray for the grace to realize that no matter where you are, you are in the presence of the Lord.

Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of Jesus Can Transform Your Faith

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive.

The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

The Shack

The life of faith is a struggle enough in a broken world without us complicating it for other believers.

So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey