Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

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

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.

When I returned to wrestling, I went back a changed man. I had adopted a new way of thinking. All I wanted was for God to help me be a good witness on the platform He had brought me back to.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

I am keen on a spiritual life and have struggled to find a place for my heart in a religious community.

For most of my life I didn't believe in God. Who had time?

From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins. To take into the inmost shrine of the soul the irresistible forces whose puppets we seem to be - Death and change, the irrevocableness of the past, and the powerlessness of Man before the blind hurry of the universe from vanity to vanity - to feel these things and know them is to conquer them.

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.