Quotes About Faith

He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.

You didn't ask for a priest." "Whether I've been good or bad, I don't think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.

After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

wondered if he really was capable of it. Then he thought what a thrill it would be to create something from nothing; to see, one day in the future, a new church here where now there was nothing but rubble, and to say: I made this.

Any man who needs to surround himself with loyal acolytes doesn't really believe in himself," he would say. "And if he doesn't believe in himself, why should I?

Abraham was asked to sacrifice his only son. God no longer asks for blood sacrifices, for the ultimate sacrifice has been made. But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

Ha creído que, al servicio de Dios, el fin justifica los medios.

He wondered if he really was capable of it. Then he thought what a thrill it would be to create something from nothing; to see, one day in the future, a new church here where now there was nothing but rubble, and to say: I made this.

Philip believed that caring for people was the service of God. That was what salvation was about.

Human beings have the capacity to rise above mundane circumstances and touch the eternal.

The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten

One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo.

No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I'm clinging Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?

People know the difference between right and wrong—and if they don't, that's what priests are for.

What should we do?" "If you want to live, you should go to church, confess your sins, pray, and lead a better life.

No matter how long she argued, people would believe the priests, not

Dondequiera que tú vayas, iré yo, y dondequiera que vivas, viviré; tu pueblo será mi pueblo y tu Dios, mi Dios; donde tú mueras… —Se detuvo, incapaz de hablar por el nudo que le cerraba la garganta; después, tras un momento, tragó saliva y continuó—: Donde tú mueras, moriré yo, y allí seré enterrada».

The simple idea that people should be allowed to worship as they wished caused more suffering than the ten plagues of Egypt.

Any man who needs to surround himself with loyal acolytes doesn't really believe in

A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good.

Her Protestant pastor had been sympathetic, until the Gestapo terrified him into silence. Perhaps the same would happen again. But she did not know what else to do. Heinrich took

Handel's "He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd," a popular anthem with elaborate part singing that the congregation performed faultlessly. As hundreds of tenor voices soared across the

hombre que se jacta de conocer la voluntad de Dios y está dispuesto a cumplirla a toda costa es el hombre más peligroso del mundo».

It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches.