Quotes About Faith

Love somehow goes with suffering.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who need certitude, and those who quest for understanding.

In his general audience on April 22, 1998, Pope John Paul II stated, "We must not forget that for Christians the 'eschaton,' that is, the final event, is to be understood not only as a future goal, but as a reality which has already begun with the historical coming of Christ.

The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.

Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, "howdy-howdy, God," and we jaw fer a bit.

It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [extinguishing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.25 Dr.

That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

T]he longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God* governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it" [quoting the Bible from Psalm 127:1].4

THE RELIGIOUS PILGRIMS OPPOSED SLAVERY

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

I'll be seventy years old soon. Well, Nahum, if you asked me whether I shall die and be buried in a Jewish State I would tell you Yes; in ten years, fifteen years, I believe there will still be a Jewish State. But ask me whether my son Amos, who will be fifty at the end of this year, has a chance of dying and being buried in a Jewish State, and I would answer: fifty-fifty.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Codependency is when we look outside of ourselves to meet a need that only God Himself can meet in our heart. This is the primary strategy of political

It seems to me that in a pastoral situation our first risk is to throw people back on themselves with exhortations and instructions as to what to do, and how to do it... [Actually we are] to direct people to the Gospel of Grace—to Jesus Christ, that they might look to Him to lead them, open their hearts in faith and in prayer, and to draw them by the Spirit into His eternal life of communion with the Father

I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Ah! when shall it dawn on the night of the grave!

Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.