Rumi Quotes

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I think God has blessed each of us with at least one gift. So I think it's a matter of do we find it within our lifetime.

I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

My driving force is spirituality.

I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

Without God and the strong heart that I have, I wouldn't be able to make it.

I wouldn't be where I am without my faith.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.