Spirituality Faith Quotes & Sayings

The Biblical stories are sacred inspiration. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty. — Flannery O'Connor

I write because I hope.I write because I have faith.
Hope.Hope alike a fresh flower grows in the sand of my heart .
Faith.Faith alike the Sea will be perishing only when Sea disappears . — Katerina Kostaki

With every new day come the Lord's great love, grace and mercies. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I strongly feel that it is only when there is a deep understanding of one's own religious beliefs and commitments that progress can be made in achieving true understanding and respect for the religious values and beliefs of others. Engaging in interfaith dialogue does not in any way mean undermining one's own faith or religious tradition. Indeed, interfaith dialogue is constructive only when people become firmly grounded in their own religious traditions and through that process gain a willingness to listen and respect the beliefs of other religions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 48-49) — David R. Smock

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. — Sam Harris

The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times. — Abhijit Naskar

When somebody you love dies, a phase of life's innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A relax soul is a sacred-being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Music awaken our soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When our institutions lack movement to propel them forward, the Spirit, I believe, simply moves around them, like a current flowing around a rock in a stream...without that soul work that teaches us to open our deepest selves to God and ground our souls in love, no movement will succeed and no institution will stand...it is the linking of action and contemplation, great work and deep spirituality, that keeps goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness flowing...as Pope Francis has said, this moment calls for social poets: sincere and creative people who will rise on the wings of faith to catch the wind of the Spirit, the wind of justice, joy, and peace. (p. 180) — Brian McLaren

If you can fall in love, then you can love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Faith gives self-confidence, self-courage and strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God gives a new grace for every new quest. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Spiritual-self consist of a determined soul and indomitable spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In every endeavour, we need God's grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A willing spirit is divine-being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith gives us strength.
Grace gives us power.
Hope gives us anchor. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is glorious riches of mystery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The most efficient action in life is a leap of faith, a total belief in the truth within. — Daniel Marques

The fearful have lost faith while the fearless allow faith to lead the way. — Bryant McGill

I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind. Why this is, I'm not sure. Perhaps because great books seem heavensent. Perhaps because I know that each nove is a puny but very valiant attempt at godlike behavior. Perhaps because there is no difference between the finest poetry and most transcendent mysticism. Perhaps because writers like Thomas Merton, who are able to enter the realm of the spirit and come away with fine, lucid prose. Perhaps because of more secular writers, like John Steinbeck, whose every passage, it seems to me, peals with religiousity and faith. It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people. — Paul Quarrington

Learn how to leave yourself behind, read between the lines, and let your spirit soar ... take our Heavenly Father's guiding hand. — Phil Mitchell

And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been instigated by satan to a denial of that baptism which is regeneration to God, and thus to a denial of the whole faith [by denying all physical aspects of spirituality, including the incarnatian and bodily resurrection of Jesus]. — Irenaeus Of Lyons

After 2012, there's been a shift in humanity, society and economics. We're witnessing a transition: everything is changing really fast - with that comes a wanting to see and believe, and faith and spirituality come into play. I think the world is now more spiritual than it ever was because people are searching for answers. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

Your greatest gift is your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This body is the house of God. — Kamand Kojouri

Faith is

Feeling Alive In The Heart. — Martina E. Faulkner

The wondrous wise God! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people - but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil. — Bryant McGill

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65) — Stephen Batchelor

We are trying to find something to feel the void. It is only God who can fill the void. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I know the Lord loves me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ. — Oswald J. Smith

Pray on bow knees, — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every sacred soul has in a sacred body. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Amen" means 'Yes', it is done, glory to God! — Lailah Gifty Akita

The knowledge of God is beginning of wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature is bent on new beginning
and death has not a chance of winning ... — Rosy Cole

All glory to the Adonai! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be strong and free from fear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are a sacred-living soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Peacemaking contains all the elements of the Christian faith. Peacemaking is the result of not only taking the beatitudes seriously, but living them. It involves right relationships. Right relationships with God, right relationships with God's people and right relationships with God's creation. It involves love. Proper love of self, love of God and creation, and love of all people - even our enemies. It is not passive, it is active; it is peacemaking not peacekeeping. Above all, it is following the way of Jesus, which was the way of the cross, where his power was 'made perfect in weakness' (2 Cor. 12:9). — Donald R. Clymer

In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith. — Bryant McGill

Awesome God.
Awe-inspired God.
Amazing God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In science knowledge comes first and then faith follows. In spirituality faith comes first and then knowledge follows. The knowledge that pesticides and chemical fertilizers are good for plants came through science. Based on this knowledge, people had faith in pesticides and fertilizers and they were used all over the world. Then a different knowledge came and faith shifted to organic farming. Knowledge brought faith, the knowledge changed, and then faith changed. The knowledge and faith of science is of "happening." In spirituality, faith is first and knowledge comes later. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them. — Dan Kimball

We are saved by grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. — Francine Rivers

Adversity refined as like gold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Spirituality and faith are at the core of who I am. I was born to deeply religious parents who were able to give me that rock solid foundation in the church and in my faith which really has served me so well. — Condoleezza Rice

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father. — John Ortberg Jr.

I hold on to faith and hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm. — Solomon Northup

In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Healing is not a 'black and white' process, it's not even a 'grey' process, it more like a; 'pinky, yellowy, orangy, greeny, bluey and purply' process with a hint of 'gold and silver' and a huge jar of 'faith — Wayne Lee

Every fresh morning brings freshness of sacred-being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation. — Sam Harris

What do you have that the Lord didn't provide?
What do you need that the Lord can't provide? — Lailah Gifty Akita

With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I walk in my own path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.
The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Moving from Hope to Faith to Knowledge
Step 1: Realize that your life is meant to progress.
Step 2: Reflect on how good it is to truly know something rather than just hoping and believing. Don't settle for less.
Step 3: write down your dilemma. Make three separate lists, for the things you hope are true, the things you believe are true, and the things you know are true.
Step 4: Ask yourself why you know the things you know.
Step 5: Apply what you know to those areas where you have doubts, where only hope and belief exist today.
The brain likes to work coherently and methodically, even when it comes to spirituality. The first two steps are psychological preparation; the last three ask you to clear your mind and open the way for knowledge to enter. — Deepak Chopra

The Bible is a fountain of life, an instruction on how God want you to live a life on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We dare travel on unknown path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law. — Derek Luke

If you read the Scriptures, you know thy Creator and thy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Spiritual love, derived from Love-Intelligence, is nonconditional, nonpersonal benevolence. It is the love of being loving, with no strings attached, just for the sake of being what God wants us to be. — Thomas Hora

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work. — Calvin Miller

You only need grace to allow the light and good spirit of your sacred-self to exist. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. — Isaac Newton

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained. — Donald Miller

The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now. — Eleanor Brownn

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

May the God richly bless humankind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith. — Kentetsu Takamori

Christmas is a celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together as sacred family. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is grace for survival; I survived two years without a regular salary. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

O Lord gives us strength to do your will. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am grateful to the Lord for hundred-fold blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a music of the universes in every heart. — Amit Ray

Great spirit, Great soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarrelling with one another. — Abhijit Naskar

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide.
While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith.
Faith?" said the Master.
He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?"
That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts. — Anthony De Mello

Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love gives strength to the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. — Sam Harris

Pursue your divine-dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wonder is the antidote to religion. — Brandan Roberston

Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people. — Keith B. McMullin

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the buyer man would get much more, but they didn't know how to do it. Merchandising was a secret to them. — John Steinbeck

The idea of existing beyond the patriarchal institution of faith, of withdrawing our external projection of God onto the church is almost unfathomable ... We think there's nothing beyond the edge. No real spirituality, no salvation, no community, no divine substance. We cannot see that the voyage will lead us to whole new continents of depth and meaning. That if we keep going, we might even come full circle, but with a a whole new consciousness. — Sue Monk Kidd