Quotes About Faith

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology?

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Belief in the supernatural is another powerful route to overcoming the very natural desire to stay alive.

The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

people have had to update their trust because money has intruded into everything,

it will be miraculous, very miraculous.

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

But faith is so easy to hold onto when you don't need it. And so hard to find when you do.

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To my fellow Crosses, keep the faith.

Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to.