Quotes About Faith

But the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you should be doing. It's about God and what He has done.

Faith, then, is simply a believing that there is a God who loves us, in spite of the poison of sin coursing through our soul.

Our problem is not that we desire happiness. No, our problem is that we continue to foolishly believe that we can attain it apart from him. We think that if we just try hard enough, the next time we'll get it right (whatever it is) and we'll be happy. Instead of pushing through to the true source of all joy and happiness, we sinfully believe the false promises of lesser gods.

One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness. Theologically there is no difference since both break relationship with God, the giver. ~ GERHARD O. FORDE

I don't differentiate between optimism and pessimism and am at quite a loss as to which of the two characterises me. When I awake each morning I thank the lord he did not take my soul during the night. If harm befalls me during the night, I thank him that it was no worse. So which am I, a pessimist or an optimist?

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.

For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-blades cracked, with such fantastic force did he pray. But soon enough his arms fell to his sides, his hopes abashed. From heaven came one of those silences utterly void of hope known to the devout.

O Almighty God, O Divinity, Helpful Power, whoever, whatever Thou mayst be, take pity upon poor mankind and make human suffering cease! All

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches,but not one wooden leg.

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.

Essentially, Doctor Pascal's only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of the divine. Life was God, the great motive power, the soul of the universe. And the sole instrument of life was heredity, which made the world; so that if one could only understand it, master it and make it do one's bidding, one could remake the world at will.

After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy

Raising her arms, she defied Heaven. 'So,' she cried, 'you prefer your God to me? You think he is stronger than I am. You think he will love you better than I would? Ah, what a child you are! Do stop talking such twaddle. What we are going to do is go back to the garden together, and love each other, be happy and free, for that is life.

Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have this pathetic faith, without it mankind would not have the ever-renascent strength to go on living.

But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means that you are incapable of believing. There is no need for the Almighty to prove His existence.

Ne doutez pas de moi, laissez-moi la force de me vaincre.

Ey adalet, ne korkunç bir umutsuzlukla s?k?l?yor insan?n yüreÄŸi!

Ce fut une jouissance mêlée de remords, une de ces jouissances de catholique que la peur de l'enfer aiguillonne dans le péché.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

Et maintenant, que veux-tu que je fasse, si tu emportes toute ma vie ?

No hay palanca más poderosa que una creencia para mover las multitudes humanas; no en vano se dice que la religión liga y aprieta a los hombres

Pero como aquí —observó Nucha, formulando sencillamente una observación histórico-filosófica de bastante alcance— no ve uno sino las atrocidades de los señores de otro tiempo... parece que son las únicas que le dan en qué pensar... ¿Por qué serán tan malos cristianos los hombres? —añadió entreabriendo los labios con cándido asombro.

But the best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying, our unbelief gradually starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. He is no longer someone we theorize about. He is someone we want to be near.