Quotes About Faith

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

Believe me," St. Vincent de Paul said to his priests, "we will never be any use in doing God's work until we become thoroughly convinced that, of ourselves, we are better fitted to ruin everything than to make a success of it.

Those whose job it is to teach too often seem to see nothing in the act of faith but an act of the intellect; but as a matter of fact the will also has a large part in it. They forget that belief is a supernatural gift, and that there is a deep gulf between merely seeing the motives of credibility and making a definite act of faith.

The end of human creatures is union with God; and in this their happiness consists.

Have confidence, dear friend. You have preserved all your priestly integrity, and your thousands of sermons will argue in your behalf before God, to excuse this lack of inner life of which you speak." "My sermons!" cried the dying man, "Oh what a light I see them in now! My sermons! If Our Lord is not the first in bringing up the subject of them, you can be sure that I won't mention it!

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

our group was heading south, like a walking blasphemy.

What sort of men?" "They don't believe in God, but they have just as much faith in humanity as we do.

Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

And faith, which is but hope grown wise, and love And patience, which at last shall overcome." Lowell.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;

Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

There's a blessing in the moments after terror and before confirmation.

To have hope in these times is an act of courage. To experience catastrophic sadness, to recognize the brutality of life, and still maintain hope--That is everything. Because in order to flourish in the desert, to grow in the bleak, shallow dust and still believe in the possibility of beauty requires a special kind of persistence, It's not only patience and grit and strength, I realized. It's also faith.

Padre nuestro, bless these children with your love and grace. Protect them from any further harm, God, and provide them with comfort in their time of unspeakable grief. May Jesus walk the road with them and repair their broken hearts. May Mother Mary sweep all dangers from their road ahead and lead them safely where they're going. Padre nuestro, these two faithful servants have shouldered more than their share of life's burdens already. Please, God, may you see fit to relieve them

The worst will either happen or not happen, and there's no worry that will make a difference in either direction.

The worst will either happen or not happen, and there's no worry that will make a difference in either direction. Don't think.

Era la sed y el hambre, y tú fuiste la fruta. Era el duelo y las ruinas, y tú fuiste el milagro. —Pablo Neruda, "La canción desesperada

Pero no te preocupes, mi reina del alma—tu sufrimiento será breve.

If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

and at the hour of our