faith

1. O God of Second Chances
   and New Beginnings,
   Here I am again.
   ~ Spiegelberg

2. Love is not merely one of the attributes of God, but the sum of them all.
   ~ Gibbon

3. All things have meaning and beauty in
   that space beyond time where Thou art.
   How, then, can I hold back anything from you?
   For all that has been, thank you.
   To all that shall be, Yes.
   ~ Dag Hammarskjold

4. Man, then, has not invented God;
   He has developed Faith,
   To meet a God already there.
   ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

5. ...At any rate, subjecting our partial knowledge of God to the rigors of philosophical inquiry is, I think, an absurd, if well-meaning, exercise.
   ~ Annie Dillard

6. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
   ~ George Macdonald

7. Too late I loved you, O Beauty so ancient yet ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
   ~ St. Augustine

8. Console yourselves. You would not seek me if you had not found me.
   ~ Blaise Pascal

9. I belive in the sun even when it is not shining.
   I believe in love even when I feel it not.
   I believe in God even when he is silent.
   ~ written on a wall in a concentration camp

10. Come to the edge, he said.
    They said: we are afraid.
    Come to the edge, he said.
    They came.
    He pushed them, and they flew.
    ~ Guillaume Apollinaire

11. By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
    ~ Sir John Powell

12. Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
    ~ Robert Murray McCheyne

13. Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.
    ~ Ralph Washington Sockman

14. I have no objection to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
    ~ Brooks Atkinson

15. Life: Breath.
    Faith: Works

16. Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
    ~ Philip Yancey

17. I now see that it is our neediness, our sense of incompleteness, that drives us to God. Grace comes as a gift, received only by those with open hands, and often failure is what causes us to open our hands.
    ~ Philip Yancey

18. We degrade God when we attribute our own ideas to him, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom his ways.
    ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

19. What we are doing in the slums, maybe you cannot do. What you are doing in the level where you are called ~ in your family, in your college life, in your work ~ we cannot do. But you and we together are doing something beautiful for God.
    ~ Mother Teresa

20. In God's economy, there is no waste.
    ~ John Oxenham

21. If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the Creator there is no indifferent place.
    ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

22. Every experience God gives us, every person he puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that only he can see.
    ~ Corrie ten Boom

23. This only do I ask of thy extreme kindness.
    That thou convert me wholly to thee
    and thou allow nothing to prevent me
    from wending my way to thee.
    ~ St. Augustine

24. It's no use walking anywhere to preach, unless our walking is our preaching.
    ~ St. Augustine

25. Sometimes God moves loudly, as if spinning to another place like ball lightning. Sometimes, en route, dazzlingly or dimly, he shows an edge of himself to souls who seek him. He does not give as the world gives; he leads invisibly over many years, or he wallops for thirty seconds at a time. He may touch a mind, too, making a loud sound, or a mind may feel the rim of his mind as he nears.
    ~ Annie Dillard

26. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience.
    ~ Pierre Teillhard de Chardin

27. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
    ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

28. If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
    ~ Yiddish Proverb

29. Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend them.
    ~ Dag Hammarskjold

30. The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel this longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
    ~ Meister Eckhart

31. The house of my soul is narrow for your entry. Let it be enlarged by you. It is in ruins. Rebuild it. There is that in it, I confess and know, which may offend your eyes, but who shall cleanse it? Or to whom but you shall I call?
    ~ St. Augustine

32. One learns of the pain of others by suffering one's own pain, by turning inside oneself, by finding one's own soul. And it is important to know of pain. It destroys our self-pride, our arrogance, our indifference towards others. It makes us aware of how frail and tiny we are and of how much we must depend upon the Master of the Universe.
    ~ Chaim Potok, The Chosen

33. The peace that comes from claiming our self in God is the foundation of our ability to carry God's reconciling love to others in the most humble places and everyday ways.
    ~ Roberta C. Bondi

34. The more naked and empty the heart is when it falls on God and is supported by Him, the deeper man is placed in God and the more he becomes receptive of all the most valuable gifts of God. For man should build on God alone.
    ~ Meister Eckhart

35. ...In God's good time,
    Which does not always fall on Saturday
    When the world looks for wages.
    ~ Robert Browning, Heracles [1871]

36. How else but through a broken heart
    May Lord Christ enter in?
    ~ Oscar Wilde

37. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
    ~ Havelock Ellis

38. Sometimes God quiets the storm.
    Sometimes God lets the storm rage and quiets his child.
    ~ Unknown

39. Life is not so much a matter of finding the answers as it is trusting in God the Answerer and living with the questions. Our questions are holy.
    ~ Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson

40. How humble the tool when praised for what the hand has done.
    ~ Dag Hammarskjold

41. Grace is very expensive, but not to me.
    ~ Ed

42. If you want to live and want your works to live, you must be dead to all things and you must have become nothing. It is characteristic of the creatures that they make something out of something, but it is characteristic of God that He makes something out of nothing. Therefore, if God is to make something in you or with you, you must beforehand have become nothing.
    ~ Meister Eckhart

43. Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world better than those who know no other.
    ~ C.S. Lewis

44. My business is not to remake myself,
    But make the absolute best of what God has made.
    ~ Robert Browning

45. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
    ~ Tecumseh

46. A soul which remains alone... is like a burning coal which is removed from the fire: it will grow colder rather than hotter.
    ~ John of the Cross

47. Faith in God, who is eternally loving and constant even as our understanding grows and changes, not only makes life worth living, but gives us the courage to dare to disturb the universe when that is what God calls us to do.
    ~ Madeleine L'Engle