~ Faith and Unity Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.

Ruth Benedict

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

Sonia Johnson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Faith is kind of like jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet. If God doesn't catch you you splatter. But how do you know whether or not He is going to catch you unless you jump out?

Ann Kiemel

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.

Lynn V. Andrews

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

Terry Tempest Williams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

William Barclay

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.

Helen Keller

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In prayer one must hold fast and never let go because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door go back in by the other.

Jane Frances de Chantal

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes de Mille

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise as well as pious.

Anne Bradstreet

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ... Though I hadn't a penny left I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God faith in myself and a desire to serve.

Mary McLeod Bethune

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead an inner force that gives them the strength to face those storms and their consequences with serenity of spirit.

Sam J. Ervin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was defined before it existed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Whether we name divine presence synchronicity serendipity or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

Nancy Long