Quotes About Faith

They don't actually believe in anything, you understand, so much as they have the habit of believing.

Bess hadn't ever been good with change. She'd never been good with taking leaps of faith, or risks or changes. When something worked, she tended to stick with it. Even when something didn't.

Because my life's been so much richer for having had her in it, you see. And I know I'll see her again. I believe I will. I wouldn't trade one minute of what we had together even if it meant I'd never have to feel this way.

This one says they'll place your 'little blessing in disguise' with a local 'Christ-oriented family.' What about the non-Christ-oriented families? Don't they deserve the right to adopt kids?

For anyone who's ever thought of giving up the dream . . . don't. Keep dreaming.

That's what it means. One day you will run toward something instead of away, and then you will understand.

All we need is right here. The two of us will find a way to make things work. That it will all be okay.

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

Prayers are answered in one of four ways," she said. "Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . ." She paused long enough for my impatience to show. "And what's the fourth answer?" "Wait," she said.

I can let my true self shine in front of God.

Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts

She taught me everything I know about what it means to be a good wife and mother, nourishing me with all the fruits of the spirit: joy, peace, kindness, faithfulness, and gentleness. What's happened to me since then isn't her fault. She did the best she could.

Please, please, please, I silently ask a God who should have stopped listening to me long ago.

It's how my ma raised me, after all, to live in JOY: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

They love their God and they love their guns. They will shoot you first and pray for forgiveness later.

Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.

We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those most in need of compassion. Then we become mothers of God, sisters and brothers of Jesus, the loved disciples born in the blood of the Cross and fed on the Word of God.

Conversion, constant conversion, is the message of the Gospel.

Would That All Yahweh's People Were Prophets!"(Numbers 11:29)

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

There will be glimpses of hope, shards of refracted light at the Cross when Jesus is crucified, but on the way there is very little. Sobering, yet truthful. We are reminded that others who have sought hope and freedom have had to endure without much to go on, too.

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in standing in communion and solidarity with Him, the Father also does for us, here and now, in our lives.

The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history.