On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.
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Shannon L. Alder
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying, ' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice, ' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as...
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Lewis Carroll
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth."" No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come...
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Iain Pears
Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.
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Shannon L. Alder
More Quotes By Patty Houser
There is nothing more powerful than gaining knowledge through our beliefs via personal experiences because when we turn belief into knowledge this way, we know what we know at the very core of our being, at a visceral level.
Knowing what we believe and why we believe it is not an option for the Christian, because as believers, OUR BELIEFS ARE THE VERY HEART OF WHO WE ARE.
When we love God with our hearts in disproportion to our minds, our faith is out of kilter with the kind of faith God wants us to have.
The secret to extraordinary faith is fully engaging our MINDS, as well as our hearts, because DYNAMIC FAITH REQUIRES A HEALTHY BALANCE OF BOTH.
There are two ways to learn life's lessons, the easy way and the hard way. I seem to prefer the hard way.