John Edwards Quotes

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

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

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 a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

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

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

When I realize I've come through so much, good and bad, because of my relationship with Christ, I can't hide that light within me.

I have begun to realize just how amazing God's plan can be.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

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

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

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

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.