FAITH
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The greatest definition – “Faith is the assured expectation of what is hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities that are not seen.” – Apostle Paul – Heb. 11:1 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
“Faith is belief in God without asking any questions.” – 8-year old girl
Faith consists of believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal
He who can’t forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. – George Herbert
Spaceship earth came with a set of instructions. It says, “He that does not work, let him not eat.” It says women should wear modest apparel. It says don’t steal anything. It says sleep only with your wife. It says you don’t do as you want, you do as you ought. If that rule book were not divinely inspired, it would still be the best blueprint for orderly existence. If it did not promise life in the hereafter, it would still contain the best formula for a good life here. – Paul Harvey
If we only have the will to walk, God is pleased with our stumbles. – C. S. Lewis
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision. – Helen Keller
No man can become a saint in his sleep. – Henry Drummond
“Help me to do good, be good and stay good.”– My son Toby’s goodnight prayer at 4 years old.
I am a historian; I am not a believer, but I must confess that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably at the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history. – H. G. Wells – THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY
Character is what you are in the dark. – Dwight Moody
One of the biggest problems of modern-day Christianity is that it has adopted a belief system ABOUT Jesus rather than adopting the religion OF Jesus. By accepting the mystical Trinity, they have elevated Jesus ABOVE the father that he depended on and prayed to, corrupting what he taught in the Sermon on the Mount into a philosophy of unpersuasive dogma that has no relevance to one’s relationship to God. – Gary Pulliam
I always have been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right….Dead, but right. – Edward R. Murrow
There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher
“Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.” – John Payne to Maureen O’Hara – MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET – Valentine Davies -(Screenplay)
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“And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” – Jesus Christ – John 8:32 – Apostle John – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
To believe in something and not live it is dishonest. – Mohandas Gandhi
Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love, and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. – Grace Hansen
Be perched as a bird on a frail branch that she feels beneath her. Still she sings away all the same,knowing she has wings. – Victor Hugo
If God didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. – Voltaire
I hope we get credit for all the times we resisted temptation? – Gary Pulliam
“Faith is both an achievement and a gift: it is an achievement of seeking, questioning, yearning, reasoning, hoping and it is a gift of God, who fashioned this world, whose goodness sustains it and whose teachings could save it if only we—believers and deniers both – would listen, would love.”– David Wolpe (Jewish rabbi) – WHY FAITH MATTERS – 2008
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationism has certainty without any proof. The idea is to die as late as possible. – Ashley Montagu
“Thank you for birds and grass and trees and flowers.” – My son Toby’s prayer at 4 years.
There are two ways to live out your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as if everything is. – Albert Einstein
“The wolves became lambs. Such transformations occur in the last agonies of life. However different and imperfect the various sketches of religion are, even when belief is shapeless—there is a trembling of the soul.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
The worst thing that can happen to a person is not to die young. The worst thing is to live a long active life, only to be separated eternally from God. – Someone very wise
I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, hermits, monks and apostles. – Niccolo Machiavelli
Why is it when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic? – Lily Tomlin
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andrew Gide
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“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, that you have love among yourselves.” – Jesus Christ – John 13:34, 35 – Apostle John – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
The tyrant dies and his rule is over. The martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard
The past is the source of knowledge and the future is the source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen Ambrose – FAST COMPANY
Fall down seven times—stand up eight. – Japanese proverb
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. – Rousseau
The fewer the words, the better the prayer. – Martin Luther
It’s not enough to belong to a religion. You must put it into practice. It’s like medicine; you have to ingest it to combat the illness. – The Delai Lama
Science is not only compliant with spirituality – it’s a profound source of spirituality. – Carl Sagan
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous. – Albert Einstein
In every culture with a written history, there has always been a hope for the future, spurred on by the preservation of family and the eternal search for God. – Gary Pulliam
Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. – Garth Brooks
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.– Ayn Rand
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. – Rick Sherman
There is no exercise better than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Andrews Holmes
A library implies an act of faith. – Victor Hugo
For a small reward a man will hurry away on a long journey, while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step. – Thomas a’ Kempis
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia
Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mohandas Gandhi
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“What? Was it from you that the word of God came forth, or was it only as far as YOU that it reached?” – Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 14:36 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Rienhold Niebuhr
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light. – Socrates
The most destructive criticism is indifference. – E. W. Howe
Morality is truth in full bloom. – Victor Hugo
When two friends get angry with each other, whoever takes the initiative and offers to forgive first generally gets the first blessing. – Gary Pulliam
“It’s a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. It’s a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” – Charles Darney facing execution by guillotine at the conclusion of A TALE OF TWO CITIES – Charles Dickens
The greatest question of our time is not communism verses individualism, not Europe verses America, not even East verses West, it is whether men can live without God.” – Will Durant
I intend to live forever—so far, so good. – Steven Wright
I really like human beings that have suffered. They’re kinder. – Emma Thompson
“Am I in heaven?” asked Denise Lockie after her plane crash-landed on the frozen Hudson River. “No, and I’m no angel,” said Mark Hood, as he urged her to get moving quickly toward the exit.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees the others. – Aristotle
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the Creator. – Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. – Thomas Aquinas
I’ve learned we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for. – Andy Rooney
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery—and it is greater than we are. – Rabbi David Wolpe – MAKING LOSS MATTER
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“And He will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and neither will they learn war anymore.” – Hebrew prophet Isaiah – Isa. 2:4 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES – On the United Nations Plaza in New York
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“What shall we say of those who, notwithstanding, ignore the abundant evidence in the authenticity of the Holy Scriptures? If still unconvinced, surely we have reason to conclude that it is the heart rather than the head which is at fault—that they do not wish to believe that which humbles their pride, and will force them to lead different lives.” – S. Austin Allibone – THE UNION BIBLE COMPANION
I’ve learned that I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way. – Andy Rooney
If the prelates (appointed clergy) set aside the commandments of God and enjoin their own man-made commands, what they do and command is of no avail. – Wessel Gansfort (Dutch religious scholar) – published around 1520 - 1522
A new form of religious community appeared for the first time in history: not a nation celebrating its patriotic cult, but a voluntary group, in which social, racial and national distinctions were transcended: men and women coming together as individuals, before their god. – Paul Johnson – A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out that there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to find out there is. – Albert Camus
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. – Abraham Lincoln
When we see a painting, we accept it as evidence that a painter exists. When we read a book, we accept that an author exists. When we see a house, we accept it that a builder exists. When we see a traffic light, we know that a law-making body exists. All those things were made with a purpose by those who made them. And while we may not understand everything about the people who designed them, we do not doubt that the people exist. – Personal viewpoint - WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE –1993
The natural laws of the universe are so precise that we have no difficulty building a spaceship to fly to the moon, and we can time the flight with the precision of a fraction of a second. These laws must have been set by somebody. – Wehrner Von Braun
The profound moral and spiritual intuitions of the Bible, which form a unique revelation of God to man through the channels of human experience, are just as true today as they were two or three thousand years ago. – William Albright (Archaeologist)
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“Finally bothers, Whatever things are true, whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are lovable, whatever things are well-spoken of, whatever things are virtuous, whatever things are praiseworthy, continue considering these things. The things that you learned as well as accepted and heard and saw in connection with me, practice these, and the God of peace will be with you.” – Apostle Paul – Phil. 4:8, 9 The HOLY SCRIPTURES
True faith is the belief in the reality of absolute values. – William Ralph Inge
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. – Mohandas Gandhi
‘They’ told us the churches are ‘old fashioned’ and they should modernize, liberalize, rationalize and compromise. And those that compromised most are shrinking the fastest. It appears that ‘they’ gave us some awfully bad advice. They did. – Paul Harvey
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. – Arthur Golden – MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by men. – William Ralph Inge
