#fait

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#trees #faith

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers #people #faith

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#failure #success #truth #faith

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory. ↗

— Betty Smith

#hope #faith

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. ↗

— Martin Luther

#asked #call #certainly #desired #earnestly

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#have #little #death

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#doubt #faith #faith

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#survival #faith

Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith. ↗

— Francine Rivers

#faith #inspirational #faith

Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#faith #guidance #trust #waiting #faith