“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.”
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
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Joyce Meyer128
American author and speaker 1943Related quotes
“Faith brings peace. Faith brings joy.”
Rachel Scott (1981–1999) American murder victim
Source: "Desperate Measures" (25 April 1998), as quoted in Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine https://books.google.com/books?id=GE5sCrZ9JwkC&pg=PA109 (2008), by Beth Nimmo, Darrell Scott, and Steve Rabey, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, p. 127
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) American clergyman and author
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.
“What is faith? Faith is trusting God for your problems and for your life.”
John Townsend (1952) Canadian clinical psychologist and author
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush (2004)
Context: War and occupation create innocent victims. We count the body bags of American soldiers; there have been more than 1000 in Iraq. The rest of the world also looks at the Iraqis who get killed daily. There have been 15 times more. Some were trying to kill our soldiers; far too many were totally innocent, including many women and children. Every innocent death helps the terrorists' cause by stirring anger against America and bringing them potential recruits.
“The proper relation is a minimum of creed and a maximum of faith.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"The Holy Dimension", p. 335 - 336
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: There are many creeds but only one faith. Creeds may change, develop, and grow flat, while the substance of faith remains the same in all ages. The overgrowth of creed may bring about the disintegration of that substance. The proper relation is a minimum of creed and a maximum of faith.
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
“Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?