- “Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God…is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.” ― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
- “Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don’t allow you to live and Oxygen don’t let you die.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Faith is believing in something you know isn’t true.” ― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- “Strong people don’t put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.” ― Abhishek Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “I’ve been a Christian since I was a little girl. But my Christianity is a muddy mess of thoughts and opinions and making God into what works for me-like going shopping at the mall and picking out whatever I want, putting together faith like I would an outfit. Somehow I don’t think the Creator, the I AM, the savior of the world is something we can mix and match to out liking.” ― Cindy Martinusen-Coloma, Caleb + Kate
- “The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.” ― Dr Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU
- “The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)” ― Swindoll Charles R.
- “Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can’t see the other. They don’t know they are connected.” ― Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- “I’m about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you’re going to find is a man who didn’t care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.” ― Greg Behrendt
- “those who have loved are those that have found God” ― Guru Nanak
- “But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these years you have known only shadow and silence, and we have so much to show you. To save you.I am not worth saving.We are all worth saving.How can you know?We cannot ever know, not truly.But we have faith.” ― Amie Kaufman, Their Fractured Light
- “Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakenly created for themselves. […] It is a plague – especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour of one kind or another. They’re all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.” ― Tim Lott, Scent of Dried Roses
- “It’s our faith that activates the power of God.” ― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
- “May you wait for God’s own fulfilment of His promises.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora’s a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.” ― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
- “Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “When one has control over themselves, they are fully equipped to help others and face all the realms of life.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” ― Jim Valvano
- “The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure for our listlessness is to be out within the invigorating wind. The cure for our uselessness is to take back up our stewardship; for it is not that there has been no work to be done, we simply have not been attending to it.” ― L.M. Browning, Ruminations at Twilight: Poetry Exploring the Sacred
- “Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.” ― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
- “Tolkien, lucky man, had protected a realm of his own invention to which he could flee. Robert Graves, embittered by battle, writes: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his… Wisdom made him old and wary banishing his Lords of Faery” ― Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- “And I don’t believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I’ll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.” ― alice walker, The Color Purple
- “There are countless veils between us and God, but no veils between Him and us.” ― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
- “Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” ― Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
- “Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “I may not have riches but I have great life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, Voices
- “We don’t find Godin temples and cathedrals.We don’t find Himby standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a pew.God appears when welove someone other than ourselves.And we continue to feel His presence when we do good for others.Because God is not foundin mosques and synagogues.He resides in ourhearts.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.” ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed