Quotes by Faith It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed. Carlo Maria Martini and-love inspiration faith Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway. Carlton Pearson missionary faith believe You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy. Carol Burnett pain religious faith Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you. Caroline Myss faith mind heaven You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you "knows that you know" and that you do not just hope that you know. Carrie Judd Montgomery study faith knows Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could Carrie Nation causes tombstone faith Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent. Carrie Newcomer eggs inspiration faith If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart. Carrie Newcomer inspiration faith heart Sometimes you just close your eyes and jump... you don't think too long or maybe you just won't. Sometimes you just follow your heart, don't analyze too long, or maybe it might just be gone. Carrie Newcomer inspiration faith heart Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land. Carter Heyward land belief faith Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before. Carter Heyward mysterious surprising faith We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp Caryll Houselander christian faith life Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice. Caryll Houselander real christian faith God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear. Caryll Houselander inspiration faith heart It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness; nevertheless, we must believe that He is growing in our lives; we must believe it so firmly that we cannot help relating everything, literally everything, to this almost incredible reality. Caryll Houselander inspiration faith believe The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life. Caryll Houselander inspiration healing faith By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world. Caryll Houselander inspiration faith heart It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ. Caryll Houselander inspiration faith children We are only syllables of the perfect Word. Caryll Houselander inspiration faith perfect Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth. Caryll Houselander faith mother children «1112131415161718192021»