Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss. When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been; it's best to take advantage of that large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
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When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.
I give Him my worries and doubts, my frustrations and insecurities. I give Him the parts of myself that are broken and fearful...Whatever we will become, however the changes and circumstances of our lives will play out, I trust in God to bring me to where I’m meant to be. Bring us to where we’re mea…
You can have all the faith you want in spirits and the afterlife, heaven and hell, but when it comes to the world, don't be an idiot, because you can tell me that you put your faith in God to get through the day but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.
— Sara B. Cooper, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
Step two is believe. Believe that it’s already yours. Have what I love to call unwavering faith. Believing in the unseen.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them your faith lies.
When I talked with students who were trying to get as far as they could from their childhood religion, they often confessed to feeling guilty or ashamed about their rebellion. I would say thank God—thank some better God—for your rebelliousness. It’s a cry of truth from inside you. It’s a kind of pro…
When you believe in people, people come through.
— Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
Not everything happens for a reason. Some things happen purely because evil exists in the world. That did not happen to you because you deserved it. It didn’t happen to you because you needed to learn a lesson. There are lessons you can learn without experiencing pain.
Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is…
Sometimes my heart aches at how my life has turned out, in a good way. It doesn't mean there haven't been hardships, there have been, but I'm here and here is good.
Do you know what my mother said to me when I told her I wanted to start a company? She said your chances are one in a million. And I said maybe I'm that one, and she said you're not. And she was wrong. Because I am one in a million.
And sometimes He doesn’t answer our prayers in the way we want Him to because He’s sheltering us from pain. Sometimes it looks like He doesn’t love us, when really He’s granting us the biggest gift.
I think part of the reason your story is so crazy is that God wants you to know that there is nothing constant except for him. That there is no one better to lean on and trust except for him, that there is no one who will bring you what you want except for him and there is no one who can rewrite you…
He will heal you. He will heal your broken heart, he will ease your restless mind, and he will solve the mystery of your puzzled thoughts. He wants you to be patient but he will always fix you.
Have a little faith, and if that doesn't work, have a lot of mimosas.
If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
I have the grace to overcome every obstacle. God is giving me wisdom to solve every problem that I am faced with.
I don't think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.