a few quotes that struck a cord...

"Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine."
~Anonymous

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
~Anonymous

“Faith makes all things possible.... love makes all things easy.”
~Anonymous

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
~Anonymous

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
~Anonymous

"Love to pray. Feel often during the day the need for prayer, and take trouble to pray. Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and your heart will grow big enough to receive Him"
~Mother Theresa

"There is a polish for everything. There is a polish that takes away rust; and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God."
~Prophet Muhammad

"The fruit of silence is prayer.
The fruit of prayer is faith.
The fruit of faith is love.
The fruit of love is service.
The fruit of service is peace."
~Mother Teresa

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
~Anonymous

“Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS.”
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
~David Viscott

“Prayer is the key to Heaven, but faith unlocks the door.”
~Anonymous