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God has arranged strange ways for some of us to find him. Sometimes He brings us on long physical journeys; sometimes He leaves us at home and makes the journey internal. Yours has been both. You have gone a long way and struggled a great deal, but I can see from your eyes that it was not for nothing. ↗

— Abigail J. Hartman

#inspirational #journey #the-soldier-s-cross #faith

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done. ↗

— Richard J. Foster

#faith #god #growing #jesus #faith

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

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Your mind can't control what your heart wants. The heart hasn't anything to do with what's logical. It just wants love. ↗

— Erika Zakariasson

#inspiration #inspirational #life #love #romance

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there. ↗

— John Ortberg Jr.

#faith #freedom #god #love #spirituality

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110] ↗

— Anne Lamott

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Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit. ↗

— Spencer W. Kimball

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I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#gods #religion #faith

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#faith #trust #faith

It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith... the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#passion #faith