Best 168 quotes in «inspirational religious quotes» category

The world of faith, fear of death. Circle of life, we'll stay alive. Bless who believe, we will live. Evil upon us, they will parish.

Things don't always turn out the way we plan, but don't ever let what you haven't done eclipse all the good you have done and are doing.

Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.

They each walked with a limp, because the lifelong journey of grief was setting in. My mom looked at my dad and said, “Remind me what we believe. What do we believe?” After a few moments, my dad responded with these words: “The tomb is empty. The tomb is empty.

The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life.

To be a mentor you must learn to be quick to listen and be slow to speak.

Things happen for reasons that are hidden from us, utterly hidden for us as long as we think they must proceed from what has come before, our guilt or our deserving, rather than coming to us from a future that God in his freedom offers to us.

Too many persons get totally lost in the gifts that God has given us. Their wild enthusiasm for heavenly things often blinds them to the reality of God Himself. All the gifts were designed only to draw us closer to God. Frequently, they become another impenetrable barrier to any kind of a meaningful relationship with Him.

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Tomorrow she’d look up tattoo removal. They were doing big things with lasers now. When Cal was just a little more stable, she’d break up with him, gently, and then she’d begin her project of helping everybody she could help, and after that she’d head out on a great long journey to absolutely nowhere and write a gorgeous poem cycle steeped in heavenly lavender-scented closure and also utter despair, a poem cycle you could also actually ride for its aerobic benefits, and she’d pedal that fucker straight across the face of the earth until at some point she’d coast right off the edge, whereupon she’d giggle and say, “Oh, shit.

Tuhanku Yang Maha Penyayang, ...Aku selalu merasa kurang, tak pandai, paling tak beruntung, dan terkadang batinku bertanya mengapa Engkau tak adil kepadaku. Aku sadar bahwa menyalahkan-Mu itu salah, dan karenanya Tuhanku maafkanlah aku. Tuhan, rahmatilah aku dengan kemandirian yang cukup untuk diriku sendiri, dan agar yang kulebihkan adalah untuk kebahagiaan sesama. Aamiin

Visions are for the Heavens to see.

Ukhuwah itu tidak bisa dihapus dalam satu perintah, walaupun yang memerintah adalah seorang raja yang mempunyai banyak prajurit. Ukhuwah juga bukan sesuatu yang bisa diminta. Allah lah yang telah menghadirkan ukhuwah di antara kita.. bukan aku, kamu, dia.. dan mereka.

Too many forms of life— Too many unknowns— How couldn’t you go crazy faced with such a magnitude?

We are giving to things in this world, life and death. Everything else we must seek.

we are born and we are already dying

Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land.

We may have given to us, in this life, a few things that will give us satisfaction, temporally; but the things that are eternal, the things that are "worth while", are those eternal things that we reach out for, and prepare ourselves to receive, and lay hold of by the effort that we individually make.

We can know God, we can understand God to the extent that we as humans are able, and we can experience God in our own theology and faith development; this is absolute truth.

We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.

...we think being a Christian means to go to church on Sunday and trying to be good through the week. Now I see it means suffering, being willing to let the hard things happen to you, so that God can use us to do His work on this earth!

What makes God real for anyone is faith.

When harsh words cut you down and open long-forgotten wounds,may you, beloved daughter of a King,stand tall in your dignity and worth.

Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss?

We've got enough going on in our lives today without stressing about things that might or might not happen tomorrow

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday.

What marvelous things happen when men and women walk with faith in obedience to that which is required of them! I recall reading the story of Commander William Robert Anderson, the naval officer who took the submarine Nautilus beneath the polar ice from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, a daring and dangerous feat. It recounted a number of other exploits of similar danger and concluded with a statement that the commander carried in his wallet a tattered card that had on it these words: “I believe God will always make a way where there is no way.” I too believe that God will always make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk in obedience to the commandments of God, if we will follow the counsel of the priesthood, he will open a way even where there appears to be no way.

When I stop trying to create a life for myself, I find the life God creates for me. When I cease trying to make a name for myself—competing, grasping, pushing my way to the top—His name emerges through the actions of my life.

When we learn to accept, appreciate and love others for being different is when we will find peace, joy and happiness.

When we see the greatness of God in even our very darkest moments, then we can be free. “Even the crappiest crap we go through glorifies God,” Amber likes to say, in her Amber way. “God makes beauty from ashes, and the devil hates when He does that.

When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.

When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind,the highest End

When you get the red letters right, it all makes sense.

Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men.

Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will continue.

Wishing you the best, and praying for your success.

Yes, sometimes things happen that are clearly Divine intervention, but other times we reap the consequences of our or another's sinful choices. From Adam and Eve on down, God has never interfered with man's free will to choose what is evil versus what is good. And we all pay the consequences of that. It's not about whether bad and unjust things happen, but how we choose to react when they do.

Where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty.

Yet, if our simplification of the gospel message is our main way of communicating these ideas, our faith and the faith of those we lead will be shallow, thus only wading in simple ideas of a complex God.

You are the greatest temple in the universe; God dwells within you.

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

You don’t have to die and go to heaven. All you have to do to be in God’s presence is choose Him. All you have to do is believe.

You must not keep the light for yourself,but share it with others to come.

Your faith is designed to operate outside of your emotions. When you operate in faith, how you feel has no bearing on how you respond. Faith does not need your emotions to confirm what you are believing God to do in your life. We should understand what we are feeling and why we are feeling it but we should not be distracted or controlled by how we feel. Have faith.

Your past experiences are past indeed; those strains and emotions of sensuous life are gone and what has remained is the temple of your own building, that edifice not built by hands. The reality of you is in the invisible, the intangible. In retrospect your spiritual milestones stand stronger to you in their fixed position than any outward experience. Having arrived at this understanding try now, quietly, gently, without too much effort of self-discipline, to keep to the invisible, train yourself to keep immaterial. Watching and praying are essential. When hard pressed by old habits and you are under the heavy blanketings of times and events, you, as it were, disappear. This is the moment to step back into the invisible, for then the invisible will enfold you and give you great power in the visible world.

You may say we made a mistake placing the birth of Jesus on December 25th. Consider this: in 3 B.C., December 25th was the eighth day of Hanukkah, the day when the greatest gift is given.... Early Christians would not have made up the date, or used a pagan festival date...the date was chosen by people who remembered.

A blessed hands touches sand and it becomes gold and a curse hand touches gold and it become sand. with Jesus Christ in you,you are blessed.

You should have a kind heart because you are not just a so and so person,you are also an identity who is part of the almighty god,who above all likes kindness because,he is the bestower of all desired attributes but is benevolently looking for kindness from his creation

...all of our tomorrows are God's yesterdays.

Adversity is what illuminates quagmires, but all that really matters is destiny.We cannot be blinded by present circumstances which roar like Goliath and sent shivers down the spine. That’s not what destiny holds, remember; mercy spurned is demise embraced.