“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.” 
― Dallas Willard

“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.” 
― Joyce Meyer

“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.” 
― Brennan Manning

“As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.” 
― Brennan Manning

“You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.” 
― Daniel C. Dennett

“True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.” 
― John Calvin

“Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.” 
― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.” 
― A.W. Tozer