“Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...” 
― Leonard Cohen

“Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.” 
― T.F. Hodge

“The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.  Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

“to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.” 
― Søren Kierkegaard

“A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.” 
― Richard J. Foster

“It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to become. Trust in the Lord as He leads you along. He has things for you to do that you won't know about now but that will unfold later. If you stay close to Him, You will have some great adventures. You will live in a time where instead of sometimes being fulfilled, many of them will actually be fulfilled. The Lord will unfold your future bit by bit.” 
― Neal A. Maxwell

“But everything I have to give, I'll give to you” 
― Ray Lamontagne

“I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God acts rightly, but to us, it seems confusing. Or sometimes plain wrong.” 
― Tessa Afshar