Quotes About Faith

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

But many people want to look upon God with the eyes with which they look upon a cow; they want to love God the way they love a cow that you love because it gives you milk and cheese. This is how people behave who want to love God because of external wealth or inner comfort; but they do not love God properly: rather, they love their self interest.

Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God's possession.

For however devoted you are to him, you may be sure that he is immeasurably more devoted to you and has incomparably more faith in you. For he is faithfulness itself – of this we can be certain as those who love him are certain.

You should be like those who at all times watch and wait for their Lord' (Luke 12:36). Truly, such vigilant people are alert and on the watch for their Lord for whom they wait; they look to see if he is not by chance concealed in what befalls them, however strange it may be to them.

Christ said: 'Whoever leaves anything for my sake will receive again a hundredfold in return' (Matt 19:29).

Whoever wants to receive the body of our Lord does not need to scrutinize what they are feeling at the time or how great their piety or devotion is, but rather they should note the state of their will and attitude of mind. You should not place too much weight on your feelings but emphasize rather the object of your love and striving.

When we go out of ourselves through obedience and strip ourselves of what is ours, then God must enter into us; for when someone wills nothing for themselves, then God must will on their behalf just as he does for himself.

If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.

our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.

To serve God with fear is good; to serve Him out of love is better; but to fear and love Him together is best of all. To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace in the midst of pain is the best of all.

for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

May you find great value in these You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

That we may 'live in eternity', so help us God. Amen.

they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God' (Sermon 19).

Where I will nothing for myself, there wills instead my God.

We must withdraw, then, from all things, for when God works, he works without an image.

And so in my view the most important thing of all is that we should give ourselves up entirely to God whenever he allows anything to befall us, whether insult, tribulation or any other kind of suffering, accepting it with joy and gratitude and allowing God to guide us all the more rather than seeking these things out ourselves.

We should not content ourselves with a God of thoughts for, when the thoughts come to an end, so too shall God. Rather, we should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures. That kind of God will not leave us, unless we ourselves choose to turn away from him.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

There is no better advice on how to find God than to seek him where we left him: do now, when you cannot find God, what you did when last you had him, and then you will find him again.

You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.

If you wish to know God, you should not only be like the Son, but you should be the Son himself.

Thus the soul's pursuit continues, for she holds to this knowing-by-unknowing.