Quotes About Faith

Leopold did not have to touch it to know to whom it belonged. It was as familiar as his own palm. It was his rosary, lost when he fell from the train. He closed his eyes. Look how far I have fallen, my Lord . . . He remembered Bernard so bowed by sorrow, so stricken by grief. Over me . . . a traitor.

An old Churchill slogan popped into Gray's head. If you're going through hell, keep going.

ICHTHYS, was an acronym for Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, or Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior.

Irenaeus, wrote

Are you sure, Gray?' He lifted his eyes. 'No . . . I'm not. I'm not sure of a damn thing.' He slipped his hands free of the monsignor's and peeled the battery off the phone, cutting the last ring in half. 'But that doesn't mean I won't act.

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.

Whatever ought to be, can be.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne—Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

You've gut to git up airlyEf you want to take in God.

'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking...

It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.

Ef you take a sword an' dror it, An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God'll send the bill to you.

But all God's angels come to us disguised...

transform yourself by the renewing of your mind. When you believe differently, you act differently and start to get different results.

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.

be cool. God created you that way