Quotes About Faith

According to his opinion, man should only believe what he can grasp with his intellectual faculties, or perceive by his senses, or what he can accept on trustworthy authority. Beyond this nothing should be believed.

To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.

Again, "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17), and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give--but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises, to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life.

Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2).

Thank God in an atheist.

If you weren't here and Oma died, I'd deal with it. Because there'd be nothing more to lose. It'd be just me. But now it's different; it's worse. Because you're yet another person to lose. You do stupid, dangerous things, and every time you go away, I pray in agony that you'll come back. It's unfair. Hope is pulling me to pieces. I can't stand it.

he became aware of an entire world of the spirit about which he had been taught nothing in the seminary and which seemed to flourish as the dark underside of life in his beloved New York.

Creo que el príncipe de este mundo será entronado esta noche en la antigua ciudadela, y desde allí creará una nueva comunidad. -Y su nombre será la Iglesia universal del hombre.

Not to believe in evil is not to be armed against it.

Prefiero ser un católico seglar que coopera con la Iglesia, a una marioneta en esta pocilga irreligiosa de mal gusto.

El día en que esta Santa Sede se sujete a la nueva Europa de diplomáticos y políticos, a la Europa centrada en Bruselas y París, aquel día comenzarán realmente los infortunios de la Iglesia

Quien no desconfía de sí mismo no merece la confianza de los otros.

Dame, Oh Dios, fuerzas para hacer que mi amor sea fructífero y útil. Dame fuerzas para no despreciar jamás al pobre ni plegar mis rodillas ante el poder insolente. Dame fuerzas para levantar el espíritu bien alto, por encima de las banalidades cotidianas. Dame fuerzas para que me humille, con amor ante ti.

de su maestro Nó-Elin: Quien no desconfía de sí mismo no merece la confianza de los otros.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Since they fought with a clear and pure conscience these men had no dread of death, confident in the knowledge that in the sight of the lord they would be his martyrs.

Islam understands its mission as extending God's rule over the entire world. Practically speaking, this means that the entire world should be under Islamic rule.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Toute terre est Terre Sainte, là où un être est persécuté pour ses Idées.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Our expectancies are rewarded by substances.

The Negro "revolution" is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the Black revolution is controlled only by God.

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.