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π―οΈ Faith
βThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things and faith transforms each defeat into growthβ
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βIn the end only three things matter how much you loved how gently you lived and how gracefully you released what was never yours all guided by faithβ
β Jack Kornfield
βFaith is not the belief that God will do what you want but the belief that God will do what is rightβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βThere is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living and faith calls us to live fullyβ
β Nelson Mandela
βThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time and faith enlists them both on our behalfβ
β Leo Tolstoy
βLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity and faith is what connects themβ
β Seneca
βOnly in the darkness can you see the stars and faith is the ability to see stars when others see only nightβ
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βRealize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have and faith makes each moment sufficientβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be wellβ
β Julian of Norwich
βFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.β
β Helen Keller
βHave courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.β
β Victor Hugo
βEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world and faith is the education of the spiritβ
βI believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else and that is faithβ
β C.S. Lewis
βAnd suddenly you know it is time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings with faithβ
β Meister Eckhart
βWhen a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark you do not throw away the ticket and jump off you sit still and trust the engineer and that trust is faithβ
β Corrie ten Boom
βIn the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.β
β Unknown
βSay not I have found the truth but rather I have found a truth and faith continues to reveal moreβ
β Kahlil Gibran
βPatience is not sitting and waiting it is foreseeing and faith is the telescope through which we see the futureβ
β Rumi
βWe must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear and faith provides the strongest materialβ
βThe soul is healed by being with children for they embody the pure faith we have forgottenβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βRun my dear from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings of faithβ
β Hafiz
βNever be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God for that is the essence of faithβ
βLet me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them through faithβ
β Rabindranath Tagore
βHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through faithβ
β Anne Frank
βNothing can dim the light that shines from within and faith is what keeps that inner light burning brightβ
β Maya Angelou
βEverything can be taken from a person but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose attitude and faith preserves that freedomβ
β Victor Frankl
βFaithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.β
βYour joy is your sorrow unmasked and faith teaches us to see the joy hidden within every sorrowβ
β Khalil Gibran
βRaise your words not your voice for it is rain that grows flowers not thunder and faith speaks in the gentle rainβ
βYou are the sky and everything else is just the weather and faith keeps you identified with the sky not the stormsβ
β Pema Chodron
βFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light of a new dawnβ
βThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts and faith elevates those thoughtsβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βFirst they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win and faith sustains you through every stageβ
β Mahatma Gandhi
βFeelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky but conscious breathing is my anchor and faith is the anchor of my soulβ
βNone of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.β
β Paulo Coelho
βFaith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.β
βIn the midst of uncertainty find comfort in faith for it connects you to the infiniteβ
β Deepak Chopra
βThe deepest level of communication is not communication but communion and faith is what makes communion possibleβ
β Thomas Merton
βFaith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.β
β Mahalia Jackson
βThe world is not divine sport it is divine destiny and faith connects us to that destinyβ
β Martin Buber
βImagination is everything it is the preview of coming attractions and faith turns those previews into realityβ
β Albert Einstein
βFaith is a place of mystery where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and strength to let go of our fearβ
β Brene Brown
βPatience achieves everything and faith makes patience possible in the face of any trialβ
β Teresa of Avila
βGod does not require that we be successful, only that we be faithful.β
β Teresa of Γvila
βArt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time and faith does the sameβ
βLet nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you all things are passing away but God never changes and faith is patientβ
βBecause of your smile you make life more beautiful and because of your faith you make life more meaningfulβ
βFaith is taking the first step even when you cannot see the whole staircase ahead of youβ
βGenerosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need and faith is the balance between the twoβ
βIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.β
βThe most common form of despair is not being who you are and faith gives you courage to become yourselfβ
β Soren Kierkegaard
βThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles but only by a spiritual journey and faith is the vehicleβ
β Wendell Berry
βWhen we have nothing left but faith we discover that faith is enough to sustain everythingβ
β Henri Nouwen
βAll I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βThe moment the slave resolves that they will no longer be a slave their fetters fall and that resolve is faithβ
βWhen you have come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly.β
β Patrick Overton
βHave faith in yourselves and stand up on that faith for it is the greatest religionβ
β Swami Vivekananda
βThe wound is the place where the light enters you and faith is the light that streams through every woundβ
βWe never know how high we are till we are called to rise and faith gives us the wingsβ
β Emily Dickinson
βWhen you want something with all your heart the entire universe conspires to help you and that is faith in actionβ
βDoubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith for faith includes accepting the doubtβ
β Paul Tillich
βLet nothing disturb you let nothing cause you fear for all things pass and faith endures through every passingβ
βAccustom yourself continually to make many acts of love for they enkindle and melt the soul and faith fans the flameβ
βStop acting so small because you are the universe in ecstatic motion and faith reveals your true sizeβ
βNo mud no lotus and faith sees the lotus even when buried deep in the mudβ
βThe real question is not did you help but did you love and faith is what makes love possible even when helping failsβ
βThe present moment is an ever-flowing source of holiness and faith teaches us to drink from itβ
β Jean-Pierre de Caussade
βIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult and faith gives us daringβ
βEven in the midst of a very difficult time we can find moments of joy through the practice of faithβ
βIn ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with faith that life becomes richβ
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βI am not this hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within and faith awakens that soulβ
βYou must not lose faith in humanity for humanity is an ocean and faith sees the depths beneath the surfaceβ
βThe great illusion of leadership is to think that others can be led out of difficulty by someone who has never faced it without faithβ
βScience without religion is lame and religion without science is blind but faith connects them bothβ
βThe soul that has been enriched by suffering becomes richer still through the alchemy of faithβ
β Simone Weil
βWhoever has God for his friend has all friends.β
βYou talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts but when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips and sound is a diversion but faith returns you to your heartβ
βThrough faith a person is made whole and finds peace not in the absence of trouble, but in the midst of it.β
βTo the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders and faith creates that stillnessβ
β Lao Tzu
βTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky and we read them with the eyes of faithβ
βThe beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves through the gift of faith in themβ
βAll the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen.β
β James Freeman Clarke
βLive as if you were to die tomorrow and learn as if you were to live forever and faith bridges bothβ
βTo understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what they have already achieved but at what they aspire to through faithβ
βAbove all trust in the slow work of God and have faith that the deepest growth takes timeβ
β Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
βThose who have a why to live can bear with almost any how and faith provides the ultimate whyβ
β Viktor Frankl
βTo one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.β
β Thomas Aquinas
βGod did not say you will not be troubled you will not be labored but God said you will not be overcome for faith sustainsβ
βFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart toward deeper truthβ
β Abraham Joshua Heschel
βChoose to be optimistic for it feels better and faith makes optimism not just a feeling but a way of lifeβ
β Dalai Lama
βThe way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.β
β Benjamin Franklin
βOur prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you cannot help them at least do not hurt them and faith guides this intentionβ
βIf God gave the soul his whole creation the soul would not be filled but only through faith does the soul find fullnessβ
βWhen one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us by faithβ
βIn every community there is work to be done and in every heart there is the power of faith to do itβ
β Marianne Williamson
βWhen I despair I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won and faith renews my hopeβ
βNothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by hopeβ
β Reinhold Niebuhr
βFaith sees best in the dark for it is precisely when we cannot see that faith is most neededβ
βFor all that has been thanks and for all that shall be yes and this yes is the essence of faithβ
β Dag Hammarskjold
βThose who have a why to live can bear almost any how and faith provides the deepest whyβ
βA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and faith makes that first step possibleβ
βFaith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.β
βYou do not think your way into a new kind of living you live your way into a new kind of thinking and faith leads the wayβ
βIn oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn then the door is there and the key is in your hand through faithβ
β Jiddu Krishnamurti
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls and the most massive characters are seared with scars but illuminated by faithβ
βHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness and faith is the vision that perceives that lightβ
β Desmond Tutu
βOne who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome them and that strength is faithβ
β Albert Schweitzer
βThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselvesβ
βIn the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith but by the want of it.β
β Benjamin Disraeli
βThe Way that can be told is not the eternal Way. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.β
βLive a good life and if there are gods they will be pleased and if not then you will have lived by faithβ
βIt is not things that disturb us but our judgments about things and faith transforms our judgmentsβ
β Epictetus
βThe love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say what are you going through and faith gives us the courage to askβ
βBe the change that you wish to see in the world and faith is the force behind that transformationβ
βThe path is the goal and faith keeps us walking even when the path seems to disappearβ
βGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference through faithβ
βWeeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.β
β King David
βYour task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it and faith dissolves those barriersβ
βThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its childrenβ
βThe deeper our faith the more doubt we must endure and the more courage we need to keep moving forwardβ
β Parker Palmer
βLife must be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards and faith provides the courage to live forwardβ
βWhere love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking and faith restores love to its rightful placeβ
β Carl Jung
βI know God will not give me anything I cannot handle and I just wish faith would make the load lighterβ
β Mother Teresa
βThe smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.β
β Henry David Thoreau
βWith faith, discipline, and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.β
β Muhammad Ali Jinnah
βTo be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest and faith teaches us to flyβ
βCommunity is not an ideal to achieve but a gift to receive and faith opens our hands to receive itβ
βThe small human being in me is being asked to enter a conversation with my own soul and faith is the language we speakβ
βRemember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck and faith trusts this truthβ
βFaith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.β
βThe strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home and the faith that binds families togetherβ
β Confucius
βHave patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves with faithβ
βAnd think not you can direct the course of love for love if it finds you worthy directs your course through faithβ
βHe who knows others is wise but he who knows himself is enlightened and faith is the light of self-knowledgeβ
βHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness and faith keeps the light burningβ
βEveryone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing themselves and that inner change requires faithβ
βThe universe is change and our life is what our thoughts make it and faith transforms our thoughts into channels of graceβ
βWithout faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.β
β William Osler
βThe deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain and faith holds the space betweenβ
βAs you start to walk on the way the way appears and faith illuminates each stepβ
βThe eye of a human being is a microscope which makes the world seem bigger than it really is but faith adjusts the lens to see trulyβ
βA little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.β
β Charles Spurgeon
βI am not what happened to me I am what I choose to become and faith empowers that choiceβ
βFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.β
β Voltaire
βFaith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.β
β Saint Augustine
βAll real living is meeting and all true meeting happens through the openness of faithβ
βDo not grieve for anything you leave behind for faith assures us the sun also rises in the land we are headed toβ
βCome come whoever you are wanderer worshipper lover of leaving it does not matter as long as you come with faithβ
βUnderstanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.β
β Augustine of Hippo
βThe planet does not need more successful people it needs more peacemakers healers restorers and lovers of every kind guided by faithβ
βFaith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moodsβ
βFaith is a living daring confidence in the grace of God so sure and certain that we could stake our life on itβ
β Martin Luther
βWork is love made visible and faith makes love visible in everything we doβ
βTo love another person is to see the face of God and faith opens our eyes to see that divine face everywhereβ
βWhen you let go of what you are you become what you might be and faith bridges the gapβ
βAction springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility and faith creates that readinessβ
βThe only way to live in any true sense of the word is through faith hope and love practiced dailyβ
β Dorothy Day
βFear is the cheapest room in the house and I would like to see you living in better conditions through faithβ
βFaith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still darkβ
βStrike the rock, and the water will flow. Have faith in the unseen springs.β
βFaith does not mean that you become a follower faith means that you become a seeker of truthβ
β Osho
βAnd now we welcome the new year full of things that have never been and faith opens our arms to receive themβ
βThe beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxietyβ
β George Muller
βYou were born with wings why prefer to crawl through life when faith teaches you to soarβ
βThese pains you feel are messengers listen to them and faith translates their message into wisdomβ
βDo not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do itβ
β Howard Thurman
βHave faith in life itself and life will take care of you beyond what you can imagineβ
βWe can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves and faith is the peacemaker withinβ
βWe are twice armed if we fight with faith.β
β Plato
βWhen you have faith in yourself you don't need others to believe in you.β
βFaith is the antiseptic of the soul.β
β Walt Whitman
βThe friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair and confusion is the one who practices faith through presenceβ
βNow faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.β
β Hebrews 11:1
βWith mindfulness concentration and insight we can break through to the deeper dimensions of reality through faithβ
βThe outward man is the swinging door and the inner man is the still hinge and faith connects them bothβ
βFaith is a state of openness or trust and to have faith is like when you trust yourself to the waterβ
β Alan Watts
βGod has no body now on earth but yours no hands but yours no feet but yours and faith moves those hands and feetβ
βIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.β
β Blaise Pascal
βThe most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat suffering and loss yet found faithβ
β Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
βSuccess is not the key to happiness but happiness is the key to success and faith is the key to happinessβ
βThe test of faith is not that we never have doubts but that we keep going despite themβ
βTo believe in something and not to live it is dishonest and authentic faith demands authentic livingβ
βThe function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays through faithβ
βThe prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.β
β James 5:15
βWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it empties today of its strength but faith does the oppositeβ
βInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and faith demands that we stand against injustice wherever we find itβ
βI learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it and faith gave me that triumphβ
βFaith means trust and trust means you relax with existence knowing all is as it should beβ
βCast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.β
βSolitude is not something you must hope for in the future but something you must discover now through faithβ
βWe can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can namely surrender our will and fulfill the will of God through faithβ
βStrength does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable will powered by faithβ
βBe faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.β
β Thomas Γ Kempis
βYesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world today I am wise so I am changing myself and faith made this shift possibleβ
βThe way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.β
β Gautama Buddha
βWhen the student is ready the teacher will appear and faith prepares the student for the teachingβ
βFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possibleβ
β William James
βThe world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning through faithβ
βAfter climbing a great hill one only finds that there are many more hills to climb and faith sustains us for the journeyβ
βFaith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking aloneβ
βThere are only two ways to live your life as though nothing is a miracle or as though everything is and faith sees everything as miraculousβ
βGrace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it and faith creates that voidβ
βIf you cannot fly then run if you cannot run then walk if you cannot walk then crawl but whatever you do keep moving forward with faithβ
βFaith is the state of being ultimately concerned about that which is truly ultimateβ
βFaith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into through daily practice and devotionβ
βWho looks outside dreams and who looks inside awakens and the awakening is an act of faithβ
βIt always seems impossible until it is done and faith is what carries us from impossible to doneβ
βWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience through faithβ
β Teilhard de Chardin
βThe small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and faith dwells in that silenceβ
βBe willing to be a beginner every single morning and faith makes each morning a fresh startβ
βThe quieter you become the more you can hear and what you hear is the voice of faithβ
β Ram Dass
βFaith is the direction our feet start moving when we find that we are loved by a power greater than ourselvesβ
β Frederick Buechner
βSome changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new through faithβ
βWaste no more time arguing about what a good person should be and just be one guided by faithβ
βThe most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves and faith helps us be kinder to ourselvesβ
βJoy is the infallible sign of the presence of God and faith is the perception that recognizes that joyβ
βFaith is the bird that sings in the darkness knowing that dawn will come because it has experienced dawn beforeβ
βFaith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.β
β D. Elton Trueblood
βThe essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present but is a source of inspiration of vitality and hope where others have resigned and faith is its deepest rootβ
βIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough for faith to flourishβ
βAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom and faith is the steady ground beneath the spinning worldβ
βI am not bound to win but I am bound to be true and I am bound to live by the light of faithβ
β Abraham Lincoln
βYou cannot get to courage without walking through vulnerability and faith is what carries you throughβ
βSilence in the face of evil is itself evil and faith demands that we speak the truth with courageβ
βFaith is to believe what you do not see and the reward of faith is to see what you believeβ
βSmile breathe and go slowly for faith accompanies those who walk gently through lifeβ
βWithout faith do not even attempt it because without faith you will not be able to persevere long enough to succeedβ
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough and faith teaches us to count moments tooβ
βI have become my own version of an optimist and if I cannot make it through one door I will go through another or make a door with faith as my toolβ
βExperience life in all possible ways and let faith be your guide through good and bad bitter and sweetβ
βSell your cleverness and buy bewilderment for in bewilderment faith begins to bloomβ
βYou do not need to know precisely what is happening or exactly where it is all going but faith assures you it is going somewhere goodβ
βTrust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.β
β Solomon
βOwning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it and faith gives us the courage to own itβ
βPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering and out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar but faith offers releaseβ
βAs we grow in our consciousness there is more we can let in and more that we can let go through faithβ
βTrust the dreams for in them is hidden the gate to eternity and faith holds the keyβ
βFaith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossibleβ
βWhen we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who inspire our faithβ
βThe purpose of our lives is to be happy and faith gives us the courage to pursue that happinessβ
βDoubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.β
βWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves and faith enables that changeβ
βThey alone live who live for others the rest are more dead than aliveβ
βTreat everyone you meet like God in drag and faith opens your eyes to see the divine in disguiseβ
βNo great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig and if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time and faith for growthβ
βAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well for faith assures usβ
βNothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by faithβ
βEvery experience God gives us every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future only He can see and faith embraces this truthβ
βCare about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner but faith sets you free to be yourselfβ
βYesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come so we have only today and faith makes today enoughβ
βGod does not require us to succeed only to try and faith is what keeps us tryingβ
βFaith is a passionate intuition.β
β William Wordsworth
βThe prayer that begins with trustfulness and passes on into waiting will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.β
β Alexander Maclaren
βNothing will work unless you do and faith is the fuel that powers your doingβ
βAnd ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation and faith sustains love through every separationβ
βIt does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop and faith keeps your feet movingβ
βAccept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together through faithβ
βMarch on and do not tarry for to go backward is to accomplish nothing and faith keeps our face forwardβ
βWhere there is ruin there is hope for a treasure and where there is faith there is a path to that treasureβ
βCreativity is the greatest rebellion in existence and faith is the greatest act of creative trustβ
βHe who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well.β
β B. C. Forbes
βThe moment you have faith you have a feeling of certainty beyond all reasoningβ
βThe place where you are right now God circled on a map for you and faith trusts the divine geography of your lifeβ
βBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage and faith multiplies bothβ
βJoy does not simply happen to us we have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day through faithβ
βFaith certainly tells us what the senses do not but not the contrary of what they see for it is above them not against themβ
βWhen another person makes you suffer it is because they suffer deeply within themselves and faith helps us see this truth with compassionβ
βIn the cross there is safety and in the cross there is life and in faith there is everythingβ
β Thomas a Kempis
βThere is a saying in Tibetan that adversity is a good teacher and faith is what makes us good studentsβ
βWhoever fears God has nothing else to fear.β
β Saadi Shirazi
βFaith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a current alreadyβ
β Richard Rohr
βThe time is always right to do what is right and faith confirms this truth in every momentβ
βWhat we speak becomes the house we live in so speak with faith and build a beautiful dwellingβ
βFaith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism but faith with openness equals transformationβ
βThe mind is everything. What you think, you become.β
β Siddhartha Gautama
βHuman beings are social beings and we need one another and faith binds us together in mutual supportβ
βIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer and that discovery was an act of faithβ
β Albert Camus
βAll I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen and that is faithβ
βPeople may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find once they reach the top that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall but faith shows the right wallβ
βWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience and faith reconnects us to our spiritual natureβ
βTo dare is to lose footing momentarily but not to dare is to lose faith entirelyβ
βLord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.β
βNothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know and faith helps us learn the lessonβ
βYou cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water but faith teaches you to build the boatβ
βLet the beauty of what you love be what you do and let faith be the bridge from love to actionβ
βI have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian a Hindu a Muslim a Buddhist or a Jew but simply a person of faithβ
βWhat hurts you blesses you and darkness is your candle and faith is the hand that holds the candle steadyβ
βWhoever goes to God with his whole heart will never be lost on the way.β
βSometimes even to live is an act of courage and to live with faith multiplies that courage immeasurablyβ
βHe who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.β
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βIf a problem is fixable we should fix it and if it is not fixable then there is no use worrying about it and faith gives this perspectiveβ
βDo your little bit of good where you are and faith assures you that these little bits will overwhelm the worldβ
βThe garden of the world has no limits except in your mind and faith removes those limits one by oneβ
βFaith is the force of life and without it there would be nothing to sustain us through difficultyβ
βWe must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us and faith facilitates this surrenderβ
βNot all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love and faith makes our love greatβ
βThe only journey is the one within and faith is the compass that guides the inner travelerβ
βLet yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love for that pull is faithβ
βAlthough the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it and faith makes overcoming possibleβ
βYour daily life is your temple and your religion so enter it with faith and live it fullyβ
βI can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it and faith is what prevents the reductionβ
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity and faith is the attention of the soulβ
βIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and faith carries us throughβ
βPut your trust in God, but keep your camel tied.β
βFaith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof that knows without needing to explainβ
βTruly it is in the darkness that one finds the light so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all through faithβ
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