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Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option. ↗

— Criss Jami

#circumstances #faith #faithfulness #god #imparting

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#fear #humorous-truism #self-awareness #humor

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#discipleship #failure #faithfulness #prodigal #faith

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #good #good-and-evil #inspiration #uniqueness

Have a little faith in my magic fingers ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #sarah-rees-brennan #faith

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. ↗

— David A. Bednar

#righteousness #faith

My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control. ↗

— Benjamin Wood

#life-lessons #superstition #faith

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun. ↗

— George Catlin

#face #fair #fathers #fire #graves

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#faith #faithfulness #god #god-the-father #jesus

You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day. ↗

— Tere Michaels

#life-lessons #faith