Quotes of: Religious-faith Keyword

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship

The New Testament views the church--rather than marriage--as the primary place where human love is best expressed and experienced.

Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

Word of God and the Mind of Man

A leap of faith doesn’t involve leg strength. Still, I can’t take any chances, so I’ve been doing squats.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.

This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith & Life

May we be faithful to observe our own lives, be humble enough to admit our sins, and resilient enough to let God realign us toward his purposes.

Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Joseph’s trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that God had a plan.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Ann: How my heart has ached. How empty I have felt. How I’ve ached to hold my two babies.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Keith: Sometimes God grants us sustenance. But God also grants us deliverance. It’s only a matter of time.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life