Quotes About Faith

Cada día, todos los días de nuestra vida, Dios nos pone delante personas y ocasiones con las que espera que actuemos. No espera más de nosotros, pero no aceptará menos; y faltamos a nuestra promesa y a nuestro compromiso si no descubrimos su divina voluntad en cada momento de cada día.

work as if everything depended upon him and pray as if everything depended upon God.

Man was created to praise, revere, and serve God in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next.

final. Y la mayor gracia que Dios puede concederle es enviarle una prueba que no sea capaz de soportar con sus propias fuerzas… y sostenerlo con su gracia para que pueda perseverar hasta el final y salvarse.

Podemos rezar siempre si convertimos en oración cada acción, cada tarea y cada sufrimiento diarios porque antes se los hemos ofrecido y prometido a Dios. Tenemos que buscar soluciones dentro de la Iglesia, y no fuera de ella. No podemos separar sin más nuestra vida personal de la de Cristo ni del cuerpo del que Él es la cabeza movidos por un sentimiento personal de insatisfacción u ofensa.

Somehow, by the trials and tribulations of this life, our souls must be purified of this dross of self if we are to become ultimately acceptable to God.

Podía aceptar los trabajos y sufrimientos de cada día como venidos de las manos de Dios y ofrecérselos no solo por él, sino por todos los que lo rodeaban. La función del sacerdote consiste en ofrecer esas cosas a Dios por el prójimo y servir de ejemplo, de testigo, de mártir, de testimonio de la providencia y de los fines de Dios ante los hombres que lo rodean.

En realidad, no es cuestión de confiar o no en Dios, porque de hecho deseamos confiar en Él: es cuestión de nuestra fe última en su existencia y en su providencia, y exige el acto de fe más puro.

En los campos fui capaz de servir humildemente a los hombres que Dios ponía en mi camino cada día. Si las obras del espíritu en nosotros las acabamos conociendo lentamente, ¿cómo no vamos a empezar a detectar aún más lentamente las obras de ese espíritu en los demás? Mientras realizaba mi labor diaria, daba gracias a Dios una y otra vez por la terrible etapa de purificación que atravesé en Lubianka para poder servir a aquellos hombres.

There would be a tomorrow, and we would have to live in it—and God would be there as well.

Dios, que era todo en todo; no había más que una voluntad que lo gobernaba todo: la voluntad de Dios. Solo tenía que verla, descubrirla en cualquier circunstancia en la que me hallara, y dejarme guiar por ella.

And I learned soon enough that prayer does not take away bodily pain or mental anguish. Nevertheless, it does provide a certain moral strength to bear the burden patiently. Certainly, it was prayer that helped me through every crisis.

Only by a lively faith can a man learn to live in peace among the tensions of this world, secure in his ability (with God's help) to weather the crises of life, whenever they come and whatever they may be, for he knows that God is with him. In the midst of suffering or failure or even sin, when he feels lost or overwhelmed by danger or temptation, his faith still reminds him of God.

La verdadera libertad no significaba otra cosa que dejar obrar a Dios en el alma sin poner obstáculos; poner por delante la voluntad de Dios tal y como se me revelaba a través de sus indicaciones, de sus inspiraciones y de otros medios de que se vale para comunicarlos; y no obrar por propia iniciativa. El mayor sentimiento de seguridad, ha procedido de la renuncia a mi libertad para cumplir únicamente la voluntad de Dios.

somehow I knew that I could do it. I knew that I must abandon myself entirely to the will of the Father and live from now on in this spirit of self-abandonment to God. And I did it. I can only describe the experience as a sense of "letting go," giving over totally my last effort or even any will to guide the reins of my own life. It is all too simply said, yet that one decision has affected every subsequent moment of my life. I have to call it a conversion.

The very circumstances of our lives—so constant and so humdrum and routine, and yet the things that truly constitute the will of God for us each day—are also the very things that serve so to distract us, precisely because we are so involved in them, and cause us to lose sight, however momentarily, of this great truth.

We had to learn to look at our daily lives, at everything that crossed our path each day, with the eyes of God; learn to see his estimate of things, places, and above all people, recognize that he had a goal and a purpose in bringing us into contact with these things and these people, and strive always to do that will—his will—every hour of every day in the situations in which he had placed us.

Ultimately, we come to expect God to accept our understanding of what his will ought to be and to help us fulfill that, instead of learning to see and accept his will in the real situations in which he places us daily.

We are not saved by doing our own will, but the will of the Father; we do that not by interpreting it or reducing it to mean what we would like it to mean, but by accepting it in its fullness, as made manifest to us by the situations and circumstances and persons his providence sends us. It is so simple and yet so difficult.

Creí comprender lo que sintió san Pedro cuando sobrevivió a sus negaciones y recuperó su amistad con Cristo. Porque es verdad que, cuando el hombre empieza a confiar en sus propias capacidades, acaba de dar el primer paso en el camino hacia el fracaso final. Y la mayor gracia que Dios puede concederle es enviarle una prueba que no sea capaz de soportar con sus propias fuerzas… y sostenerlo con su gracia para que pueda perseverar hasta el final y salvarse.

No matter how badly the humble man fails, he will reckon his accounts with God and start over again, for his humility tells him of his total dependence on God.

For each of us, salvation means no more and no less than taking up daily the same cross of Christ, accepting each day what it brings as the will of God, offering back to God each morning all the joys, works, and sufferings of that day.

I learned there the lesson which would keep me going in the years to come: religion, prayer, and love of God do not change reality, but they give it a new meaning.

is not really a question of trust in God at all, for we want very much to trust him; it is really a question of our ultimate belief in his existence and his providence, and it demands the purest act of faith.