Quotes About Faith

In so many church situations, nobody thinks they have problems. They simply have convictions and they're trying to get everyone else to live up to them.

As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).

Receiving Communion means entering into communion with Jesus Christ. ... What is given us here is not a piece of a body, not a thing, but him, the Resurrected one himself — the person who shares himself with us in love. ... This means that receiving Communion is always a personal act. GOD IS NEAR US, P. 81

Vinny Flynn

At the kernel of every promise, there is always a little doubt, like a fragment of shell that clings to the broken nut.

Suddenly all the loneliness was gone and she could surrender herself, her life, all her future, into the keeping of this man…not quite an angel, but not altogether a devil.

Don't worship saints or sinners, for both demand your soul, and each man's soul should be his own.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because your tears won't let you see the stars.

No creo en el diablo. Si Dios existe no puede tener rival. El infierno es nuestra ambición del mal.

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

They can conquer who believe they can.

They can do all because they think they can.

The gods thought otherwise.

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

There is but one safety to the vanquished—to hope not safety.

You have suffered worse things; God will put an end to these also.

Trust one who has tried.

Faithful Achates.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their god.

Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

And if Mrs. Harris and myself are lucky enough to be in Heaven at the same time, I know what we can do when things get dull. We can give a garden party. I sure hope God didn't forget to plant a garden in Heaven.

What does the cross mean?" I ask him. "Crucifix. I don't know exactly. Jesus hanging in agony, nailed to boards. But it's a reminder." "Of what?" "Well. Of—Well, evil. That evil's always gonna be around, and you deal with it.