#faith

Jesus tells Peter to forgive seventy times seven times, not because the person we forgive will it that many times, but because resentment can have such a grip on our hearts that we need to forgive that often for our own healing. ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #marriage #faith

Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing ↗

— Ricky Maye

#church #faith #family #forgiveness #humor

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#faith #freedom #laughter #mysticism #religion

Most importantly, love each other deeply, because love cause many sins to be forgiven. - 1 Peter 4:8 ↗

— Thomas Nelson Publishers

#love #faith

A man of courage is also full of faith. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#also #courage #full #man

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#faith #hope #possibility #courage

God always takes the simplest way. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#always #god #simplest #takes #way

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little. ↗

— Morris L. West

#faith #prayer #faith

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#jane-yellowrock #paranormal-romance #skinwalker #urban-fantasy #faith

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. ↗