Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

I don't think God's through with me.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Pray in faith.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over temptation. That's Who keeps me humble every time.

I think God always has the best for us.