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We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up. ↗

— Angus Buchan

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A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#servanthood #faith

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept. ↗

— Sheila Walsh

#promise #religious #faith

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

#ethics #faith #morality #spirituality #business

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#literature #memory #proust #faith

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe. ↗

— Megan Chance

#faith #spiritualism #truth #faith

Worse still, he doesn’t know how to follow the piper anymore because it’s a path Tom has lost faith in. And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father’s eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#faith #piper #thomas #faith

Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it. ↗

— Nicholas Wolterstorff

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Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells like sweet unwashed new potatoes. This is in fact what I think God may smell like, a young child's slightly dirty neck. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#god #faith

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without. ↗

— Ralph Bouma

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