#faith

God's dreams for us is far better than our own. He desires that we be able to maximize every potential and every gift that He has given us. ↗

— Ru Dela Torre

#god #roadtrip #dreams

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. ↗

— Hubert Van Zeller

#god #inspirational #life #loneliness #patience

We're all broken, Laura. And we're all looking for someone to blame. God's the easiest target. We let ourselves believe that if He loved us, things would be perfect. But we both know that's not true. ↗

— Kathleen Fuller

#faith

On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80) ↗

— Philip Yancey

#grace #mystery #faith

I think that it’s a space that there are a lot of projections onto—the soon-to-be sexualized and already-sexualized young woman. There are so many outside perceptions grafted onto her, that she feels all at once completely blank and completely full. I noticed that a lot in your book, as well, this repetition of a shallowness. But there is also depth in the constant repetition of this shallowness. ↗

— Tamara Faith Berger

#faith

God isn't about making good things happen to you,or bad things happen to you. He's all about making choice - exercising the gift of free will. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#faith

Sometimes life can taste so sweet When you slow it down You start to see the world a little differently When you turn it upside down ↗

— Paloma faith

#faith

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true ↗

— Robert Frost

#truth #faith

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#josh-lanyon #religion #religious-faith #satanism #the-hell-you-say

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#faith #religion #science #skepticism #faith