Quotes About Faith

He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

My only hope lies in my despair.

The only thing I'm sure of is that one can't be a complete unbeliever. That would be to admit to nothingness. Absolute zero doesn't exist.

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

One had to be prepared for the thought that the world might actually be approaching Armageddon.

There is nothing less scientific than to deny something because it cannot be explained.

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

That is the fundamental question; how to trust that she has a heart and that she can, little by little, receive love, be transformed by love, and then give love.

Jesus does not impose or force anything on anyone. He gently invites each one of us to move forward. He says "come," come and see, come and live an experience of love, healing and a new inner freedom.

La actitud principal y necesaria en el discernimiento comunitario es la apertura, la búsqueda de la verdad y la confianza de que esta verdad será alcanzada

Do not worry, Mummy. Jesus loves me as I am." I imagine that the little boy thought: Jesus loves me as I am. I do not have to be different from what I am. I do not have to be what my uncle wants me to be. I do not have to be what mummy would have wanted me to be. I do not even have to be what I would have liked to be. Jesus does not care about my disability.

The Lord has given you two hands and a brain and a big world to use them in. Use them well, and you will be provided for; use them ill, and you will want

Whatever sky's above me, I've a heart for any fate.

You remember that illuminated text over the dining-room door--"The Lord Will Provide." We've painted it out, and covered the spot with rabbits. It's all very well to teach so easy a belief to normal children, who have a proper family and roof behind them; but a person whose only refuge in distress will be a park bench must learn a more militant creed than that.

The way people are for ever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, 'Perhaps it's all for the best,' when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!

The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia.

Thank the good Lord!" cried the mother, when she grasped the fact that the small piece of paper was one hundred dollars. "It wasn't the good Lord at all," said I, "it was Daddy-LongLegs." "But it was the good Lord who put it in his mind," said she. "Not at all! I put it in his mind myself," said I.