Faith Quotes

"Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive."~David S. Muzzey

"Fear knocked at the door.  Faith answered.  And lo, no one was there."unknown

"Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."~Voltaire

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"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."~Jesus (Hebrews 11:1)

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."~Martin Luther King

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."~J.R.R. Tolkien

"Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel."~Author unknown

"Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to."~unknown

"Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, No matter what it is."~Colette Baron-Reid

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."~Mary Manin Morrissey

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof."~Kahlil Gibran

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."~Kahlil Gibran

"To me faith means not worrying."~John Dewey
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"Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch."~Ramona C. Carroll

"Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow."~unknown

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.  To one without faith, no explanation is possible."~St. Thomas Aquinas

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."~Blaise Pascal

"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."~William James

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."~C.S. Lewis

"Weave in faith and God will find the thread."~Author unknown

"Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to."~George Seaton

"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."~Benjamin Franklin


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"Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future."~Robert Collyer

Faith is love's ability to express itself.~Denna J. Shelton




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Encouragement Quotes

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of these pieces up and begin again." ~Flavin Weedin

"Remember man does not live on bread alone:  sometimes he needs a little buttering up."
~John C. Maxwell

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." ~unknown

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." ~Alduos Huxley

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same." ~Francesca Reigler

"Things aren't always as they appear.  Sometimes what seems to be the end if really just a new beginning.  Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly." ~unknown

"Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers." ~unknown

"Only as I reach can I grow, only as far as I see can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." ~Karen Raven

"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." ~Mary Engelbreit

"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." ~Elizabeth Harrison

"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."

 ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can." ~unknown

"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.  You may have a fresh start any moment you choose; for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." ~Mary Pickford

"Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters.  What state of being are you choosing?" ~Bashar

"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits.  When we help one another, everybody wins." ~Jim Stovall

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." ~Winston Churchill

"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure." ~unknown

"If a condescending joke is truly funny, make yourself the subject.  You will increase the number of people laughing by at least one." ~Joe Harsel

"Adversity is like a strong wind.  It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn so that we see ourselves as we really are." ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem.  If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge." ~unknown

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."  ~Ken S. Keyes,Jr.

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." ~Ivy Baker Priest

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." ~Alexander Graham Bell

"It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it." ~Wally Amos

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts." ~Samuel Johnson

"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit:  we cannot flower and grow without it." ~Jess Lair

Be strong and brave for these two qualities will give fortitude to overcome any challenge that may seem insurmountable.  But above all, do not be too proud to ask for help from the seen and the unseen.  ~Denna J. Shelton

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Gratitude Quotes

"Gratitude is riches.  Complaint is poverty." ~ Doris Day

"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot." ~ The Hausa of Nigera

"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." ~ Frank A. Clark

"Choosing a consistent focus on heartfelt gratitude and appreciation elevates the quality of consciousness which without fail elevates and enhances quality of life." ~ unknown

"Saying thank you is more than good manners.  It is good spirituality." ~ Alfred Painter

"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel." ~unknown

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."~ G.K. Chesterton

"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion.  Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception.  Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.  Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." ~John Henry Jowett

"Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you.   Knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger & better than your current situation. ~ Brian Tracy

"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some." ~ Charles Dickens

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasurers."~Thornton S. Wilder

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."~Epictetus

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."~William Arthur Ward

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."~Eric Hoffer

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." ~William Arthur Ward

"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."~Christine Northrup

"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.  If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for." ~ Terry Lynn Taylor

Gratitude begets blessings which begets gratitude which begets blessings.  Lack consciousness begets poverty which begets lack consciousness which begets poverty.  Which cycle are you choosing?~Denna J. Shelton

Affirmation:  I AM... Gratitude.  I have a grateful heart.  I daily count my blessings.  I'm thankful for the abundance that is mine.  I open to receive and lovingly give from my heart.  I AM... Gratitude.

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