The following quotes – some attributable to great spiritual leaders and others simply anonymous – are placed here for you to discover and make your own as you search to fill your mind with encouragement and uplifting messages.
“God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.” Gandhi
“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.” Mohandas Gandhi
“Unless you believe, you will not understand.” Saint Augustine
When winter comes heaven will rain success on you.
The two basic rules of human enlightenment:
1. There is a God
2. You’re not Him.
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
God intervenes in the affairs of men by invitation only.
When God measures a man, He puts the tape around the heart instead of the head.
Decisions can take you out of God’s will but never out of His reach.
Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among the thorns.
Jesus is a friend who walks in when the world has walked out.
Those who deserve love the least need it the most.
Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.
Sometimes we are so busy adding up our troubles that we forget to count our blessings.
“I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don’t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.” Bob Marley
If a care is too small to be turned in to a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden.
It is good to be a Christian and know it, but it’s better to be a Christian and show it.
Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.
God can heal a broken heart but he has to have all the pieces.
Most men forget God all day but ask Him to remember them at night.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” Martin Luther
Jesus is a friend who knows all your faults and still loves you anyway.
You should never let adversity get you down, except on your knees.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 (NRSV)
Don’t let your worries get the best of you; Remember, Moses started out as a basket case.
Many people want to serve God, but only as advisors.
It’s easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.
“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.” Martin Luther
When you get to your wit’s end you’ll find God lives there.
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on the front door forever.
God Himself doesn’t propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?
Peace starts with a smile.
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
Don’t put a question mark where God put a period.
God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”Martin Luther
The will of God never takes you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.
If God is your co-pilot, swap seats.
Prayer: Don’t give God instructions, just report for duty.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” J. Brotherton
“Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.” Gandhi
“God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.” Mother Teresa
“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” Alex Karras
“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.” French Proverb
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.” James Dean
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato
“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” Gandhi
“Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.” Edwin Louis Cole
“My secret is quite simple, I pray.” Mother Teresa
“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.” Ninon de L’Enclos
“God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.” Author Unknown
“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” George Iles
“When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.” Charles L. Allen
“Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.” Unknown
“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.” Frederick Faber
“If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.” Bob Marley
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” Democritus
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”? Rachel Carson
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” Helen Keller
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” Gandhi
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”? Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Gandhi
”We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve” Albert Einstein
“If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.” Ashleigh Brilliant
“The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” Bede Jarrett
“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.” Thomas Jefferson
“Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!” Neal A. Maxwell
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.” Gandhi
“Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.” Cupcake Brown
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.” Stephen Covey
“God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.” Gandhi
“In God’s eyes, we’re all the same.” Mark Willis
“Only God is awesome.” Shane Claiborne
“He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.” Leo Tolstoy
What you are is a gift from God, What you do with yourself is your gift to God.
“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.” Voltaire
“Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.” Gandhi
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” William Shakespeare
“Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.” Gandhi
“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!” William Shakespeare
Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to.
“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.” C.S. Lewis
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” Kahlil Gibran
“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.” Gandhi
“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.” Oswald Chambers
“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.” Mother Teresa
“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.” Buddha
“God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.” Gandhi
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” St. Thomas Aquinas
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” Mother Teresa
Jesus is a friend who knows all your faults and loves you anyway.
“Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.”? George Weinberg
In order to receive the direction from God you must be able to receive the correction from God.
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” Gandhi
It’s good to be Christian and know it, but it’s better to be a Christian and show it.
“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the Creator.” Gandhi
