Quotes About Belief

Sato, perhaps naively, believed

Whoever follows Him "will have the light of life.

We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and blood. Our early martyrs were real men and women, with their own personalities, their flaws and their greatness. We are no different.

un hombre que ama puede ver cosas que los demás no ven. La fe abre puertas.

Of course it's not right. The Cross isn't right. But our Lord took it and turned it into the great sign that the devil hates above all other signs. Each time we accept to bear that cross and be nailed to it, believing against all believing - when it's impossible any longer to believe because of our pain - that's when we defeat him. By the blood of the Lamb!

Emotions, he was certain, were unreliable and irrelevant to the labor of religious faith.

You shame me. Of course, you are right. At the final moment, He will awake and rebuke the storm. Then He will turn to us and ask us why we had so little faith.

He will console you at certain times, but the greater work is to do His will in the darkness of faith. Faith is of utmost importance.

They're convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They're more Catholic than the Pope.

The entire world is infected. These times have bludgeoned the perceptions of man with so much horror that the mind recoils. Evil of such magnitude shakes existence to its very core. One either believes or he doesn't. We choose. My wife told me something surprising once.

She knew many survivors of the Holocaust. She said that for some, their experience destroyed their faith in a good God. Others believed more deeply than ever.

In my faith we believe there is only one answer to the blows that evil inflicts on us. The answer is not a rational argument. The answer is a man. This man is God himself suffering with us, dying with us, so that he might draw us up to the Most High, confounding all the devices of the enemy.

When everything is stripped down to its essential form, our faith is a belief in One who loves us; in Jesus, true God and true man, the only Christ, dwelling in the heart of His Church; in Him who was, who is, and who is to come—in You, O Lord! That is why our home is the universal Church, the throne on which you reign, a Church that is within time and yet outside of time.

It is very difficult", he said aloud. "It is very difficult for a man to believe that God loves him, if he does not know the love of another human being.

Michael D. O'Brien

What remains of your church is going to be handed over to the elder brother, to its rightful Lord." "God will not permit it." "Your absent god has already permitted it. Your progressives gave it over to the Christ of this age long ago. There are so many of them. How easy it was to convince them.

God wants you to know that nothing you do will ever destroy His love for you. He has sent a man back from the dead to tell you this." "I do not understand." "We do not understand because we are small creatures. You and I. All of us. Very small. To hide in His arms, that is the best thing we ever do.

If you create the impression that you believe "there is no good here," the organizational immune system will certainly kick in.

Books were another form of fog, dipping down to infiltrate and insidiously undermine the authoritative, official version, showing it up for the sham it was. He knew the stories were all made up, the characters puppets, the outcome predetermined, so why did they seem more real than reality? And why was no one else shocked by this gleeful scandal?

Neither does the British Empire for which Churchill fought with all his heart. And no one believes what they read in the newspapers any more.

I do not believe that Nixon did order the break-in," Bob Haldeman observed many years later. "Nor that he even knew about it. But I do believe that he caused it.

God wants everyone to be saved. Fostering a longing for the coming of Christ can only happen if we believe that it is for our good.

As you grasp for the next rung, remember that ultimately it doesn't matter if you rise or fall. The only thing that was ever meant to satisfy you is God.

If redemption restores creation, then creation counts for more than I had ever suspected.