#lief

Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid. ↗

— Craig Silvey

#craig-silvey #faith #fear #jasper-jones #people

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic. ↗

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

#belief #childhood #faith #religion #spirituality

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#convince #faith #honesty #people #persuading

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#deity #faith #folly #god #hope

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #faith #life #religion #spirituality

You're worth so much more than anything I can give you. If you can't believe that right now, believe in me. ↗

— C.J. Redwine

#faith #love #faith

Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to them. But we all have faith. Broadly speaking, "faith" does not apply only to belief in the supernatural. We have faith in our life, for example, believing we will live to see tomorrow, or in our health, believing we have years of healthy life ahead of us. Husbands and wives, parents and children have faith in one another. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #faith #happiness #japan #religion

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the table of elements; he alone is knowable as the one totally in control of being known. He is not at the disposal of the human mind. He is known when he wills to be known. Yet he is known in and through created reality, which is known naturally. Therefore the glory of God is exalted most not when we know God apart from observation and reading and study, but when we know God as a result of his free and gracious self-revelation in and through our earnest observation of and meditation on his work and Word in history. ↗

— John Piper

#faith #god #knowledge #revelation #study

It all begins with goodness in the heart. ↗

— Bjorn Street

#faith #high-priest-master-ani #love #love-fellow-man #philosophical

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#encouragement #faith #hope #joy #prayer