Pentecost Sunday

Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nuewal

Faith held solely is the beginning of action. - Unknown

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human spirit must prevail over technology. - Albert Einstein

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in Church. - Zig Ziglar

Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk. - Michelle Horst

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. - Immanuel Kant

I have much more faith in a kind man than I do in mankind. - Unknown

What is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see? - St. Augustine

Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence. - Mark Batterson

For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church. - Sylvain of Athos

Never pray to win, but to do your best - for God has no favorites. - Dorothy I. Welker

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. - Mark Twain

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. - William Makepeace Thackeray

If you preach to the hurts of people, you will never lack for an audience. - Joseph Parker

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses. - Mark Batterson

Giving back to society and community enriches our lives, making it a double blessing. - Kellie Sullivan

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi. - Sara Sheridan

A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. - Leo Baeck

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray. - Billy Graham

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. - Sylvia Plath

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. - Joel Osteen

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. - Rita Dove

Your mother has this crazy idea that gambling is wrong, even though they say it's okay in the Bible. - Homer Simpson

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - E.H. Chapin

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. - Elizabeth Zimmermann

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. - Daniel Defoe

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - I Thessalonians 5:16-18

The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit – whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it. - Emme Woodhull-Bache

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? - Mark Twain

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

Prayer and the Bible became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. - Rosa Parks

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson