Quotes About Faith

A smile is one of the best ways we can express the joy God has placed within us.

Each day as we make our plan of what we need to accomplish, let us ask God to love through us. In every deed and action, every errand and responsibility, may His supernatural love be evident in all we say and do... if I am doing a plethora of great activities, but do not show love to the people around me, it is all worthless.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

The eat part was easy. The praying and loving were harder.

Good news?' Gloria queried. She wondered if Emily was pregnant again (was that good news?), so she was taken aback when Emily said, 'I've found Jesus.' 'Oh,' Gloria said. 'Where was he?

Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and think, 'A drowning in a hotel swimming pool, I fancy. We haven't had that one in a while.

The roof of the big top was dark blue, spangled with silver stars, and it reminded him of something but he couldn't think what, and then he realized it was the roof - the vault of heaven - in a side chapel at the Catholic church where his mother dragged them three times a day on Sunday when they were very small, until she ran out of energy and let the devil have them. (One Good Turn)

he had stayed...because something told him that this was the life that had to be lived out.

Bridget wouldn't let Trixie come to Mrs. Dodds's house, she said she would never hear the end of it. "She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

Sister Michael turned and looked at him, and, despite her plump, jolly face, she had nuns' eyes, and nuns' eyes, Jackson knew, could see right inside your head, so he nodded respectfully at the statue. Sanguis Christi, inebria me.

The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.

Was there a kind of lottery (Reggie imagined a raffle) where God picked out your chosen method of going—"Heart attack for him, cancer for her, let's see, have we had a terrible car crash yet this month?

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.