Quotes About Faith

The Spiritual Disciplines in and of themselves have no merit whatsoever. They possess no righteousness, contain no rectitude. Their purpose—their only purpose—is to place us before God. After that they have come to the end of their usefulness. But it is enough.

Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot do. And God graciously uses this process to produce in us the kind of person who automatically will do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.

Any kingdom that defines glory in terms of a bloody cross is obviously peculiar. — Stanley Hauerwas

A Spiritual Discipline is an intentionally directed action by which we do what we can do in order to receive from God the ability (or power) to do what we cannot achieve by direct effort.

The truth is that we only learn to pray all the time everywhere after we have resolutely set about praying some of the time somewhere. — John Dalrymple

On another occasion Padre Pio's spiritual director wrote him a letter in Greek, a language which the young monk did not know. Nonetheless, Padre Pio read the letter. Fr. Pannullo marveled at this and asked him how he learned the language. "My guardian angel explained everything to me," Padre Pio replied.

When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity.

the greatest blessing can come wrapped up in the worst trouble

While you saying, 'Scat, scat,' someone else is 'round the corner sayin, 'Here, kitty-kitty.

Don't miss out on blessings because you can't see that.

I'm just saying, sissy, love the life God gave you. Stop trying to create a different one.

Sometimes God gives us our gifts and we sit on them." He winked. "And that's a shame. You're very talented. When your desire becomes greater than your resistance, I look forward to seeing you among the greats. You have a nice day.

If you don't have strength, read Psalm 73:26. If you need help with forgiveness, try Acts 3:19. If you need to see a way out of no way, try First Corinthians 10:13.

It is surely ours to combine these elements of mourning for sin and joy in our salvation in one complex and composite experience which keeps us perpetually humble and yet perpetually joyful too.

Even the fact that to be for God, leads to the maximum blessedness, is secondary to the fact that we are for Him.

I have a basic rule of thumb that about 2 percent of any large group will believe literally anything, no matter how preposterous it seems to the rest of us.

may I say prayers for the dead?

I should like my epitaph to say, "He helped people see God in the ordinary things of life, and he made children laugh.

No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.

I made a mental note not to give up all hope in humankind.

If you collected all the good faith in this room right now you might fill a teaspoon.

They say it works sometimes, but even if it does, how could you depend on anything you got that way? Not to mention that after you did it a few times any decent garbage can would be ashamed to have you found in it.

Such is the ability of man to believe in what at any time he finds it convenient to believe, they may actually have convinced themselves that they were speaking the truth.

If we are to believe in gods at all, we must believe them to be wiser and better than men.