Quotes About Faith

I am your soul. I, who restore your lost hope, am your soul

You need only one thing in the world. It is not money. It is not fame. It is not even food. All you need in the world is hope. As long as you have that, you have everything. This is your birthright that you should never lose. If you keep hope, all your other necessities will come soon enough.

My beloved jay, give me a name now. call out the name you give me, looking into the deepest place in your heart. Everytime you call my name, I'll fly to you and be your wings.

Believe in the life inside you, believe in the great and holy mind within you, and push forward with the dream you have chosen until you make it.

Plant hope's seed within your heart, For hope's where happiness can start.

cuantas veces deseara, siempre que fuera en ausencia de Bernat, lo que, atendidas sus obligaciones, sucedía con mucha frecuencia. —Y eso también cambiará —le aseguró Mercè. —No.

debía acreditar que entre sus antepasados no existía ningún converso musulmán o judío.

gente caerá en la desesperación y se lanzará a los

Debemos enseñar a los curas que amenazan y asustan a sus feligreses con el fuego eterno que en realidad no hay otro infierno que este, el que sufrimos nosotros, con la miseria, los salarios exiguos, humillantes, las condiciones de trabajo y las jornadas agotadoras, con la enfermedad de nuestros hijos y con la falta de comida y medicinas.

que ya daba por perdido. La misma opinión tenía el abogado al que acudió de la mano de Raimundo.

In death, hope is everlasting.

nunca te fíes de quienes dicen servir a Dios. Te hablarán con serenidad y buenas palabras, tan cultas que no alcanzarás a entenderlas. Tratarán de convencerte con argumentos que sólo ellos saben hilvanar hasta adueñarse de tu razón y tu conciencia.

Kirken ligger helt i enden av muren, like ved havet. Den heter … Joanet prøvde å komme på det. – Den heter Santa Clara. – Det er jo heller ikke jomfruen. – Nei, men det er en kvinne. Moren din er nok sammen med henne. Kanskje er hun sammen med en mann som ikke er faren din?

A real spy is an ethical believer in an incorporeal and ethical Deity.

Jesus, as someone divine, must go.

The resurrection of Jesus is pure myth.

Thomas Merton expresses the need for this mystical imperative: The Christian's vision of the world ought, by its very nature, to have in it something of poetic inspiration. Our faith ought to be capable of filling our hearts with a wonder and a wisdom which see beyond the surface of things and events, and grasp something of the inner and "sacred" meaning of the cosmos which, in all its movements and all its aspects, sings the praises of its Creator and Redeemer.2

To follow Jesus is to be a wholemaker, essentially to love the world into new being and life.

Describing Francis as the truly humble person, Bonaventure writes: "As Christ's disciple he strove to regard himself as worthless in his own eyes and those of others. He used to make this statement frequently: 'What a person is before God, that he is and no more.'"34

God is Trinity because God is relationship in love. This God loves us totally and unconditionally to the extent that God shares with us the suffering of our lives.

In Bonaventure's view only one who is on a journey to God can really know God; faith seeks understanding through the path of love.

The experience that the God we meet in prayer and in history actually loves us indicates, as we have seen, that we make a difference to the eternal God. The hope, then, is that nothing good is lost. Even though each and every accomplishment we achieve will eventually become space dust, and that dust may itself dissipate into cold cosmic darkness, we hope that God will not let our efforts turn to nothing. We hope and we sense that all is preserved in God

As Francis deepened his relationship with Christ, the other became less outside Francis as object and more related to him as brother.

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.