Quotes About Faith

Whenever the Lord speaks through her, it's very simple. He says do not fear but put on the whole armor of God. Repentance, sacraments, prayer, obedience. Love the Church with a great love and offer your sufferings for her purification

Unless one throws away all weapons, all armor, he cannot learn meekness.

And yet. . . and yet, the ancient scar of Adam within his nature dragged him inexorably back, again and again, to this desire for certainty.

In all your years of living," said Elijah, "has no one told you that it is possible to be restored to what one was created to be?

Here's the rock, I said to myself. This man, this rough, humble, big man was just like me. Jesus looked at him and loved him. Peter looked at Jesus and said, Get away from me, I'm a sinful man. A dumb guy from Galilee named Pete. Jesus made him into Bishop of Rome, chief of the apostles, the foundation stone. Christ built a Church on all that weakness. That's what hit me most of all, the weakness. Inside the weakness was a terrific secret.

He knew that God very often did his deepest work in the soul without any sensible manifestations. He was always at work—always—and often most powerfully in those times when his children felt abandoned, alone with impossible responsibilities or afflictions. Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.

I carry you always. You must trust in Me especially during times of desolation.

You are the heart of the world. I place my trust in You." Cling to Me in everything that is about to happen. You will bear many more wounds for My sake. "You are my life." You are My friend and disciple. Elijah.

Obedience is the best form of poverty, Billy. I think that is the kind of martyrdom you have been given.

Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We face no new dangers. They are merely variations on ancient themes.

Do you see these wounds? These bruises?" "Yes." "They are my joy." "Pain is your joy?" "The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

Be at peace, my little one, said a voice without compulsion. It was necessary for you to experience this. Recognize that voice and do not again listen to it. Do not converse with it. The deceiver wishes to shake you in his teeth. Come to me, come always to me and trust.

A good point, my son. But it underlines the fact that those who do not live in the power of the Holy Spirit are most vulnerable. Even believers can reduce the Faith to a philosophical system. They can retain the exterior forms of religion and lose its heart.

came at the impossible moment, and the world, which was powerful and sick unto death, burning and dying in its sins, was born again.

of becoming a desert dweller. Like Serafim, I had suffered on the cross with Christ, but unlike him, I had not yet given everything. You see, Aleksandr, in each heart three trees grow. Life cuts them down, trims them, crafts them into crosses. Then they are lifted high on a hill—a hill like a skull. One is the cross of Jesus, the second the cross of the repentant thief, and the third the cross of the unrepentant thief.

When everything is stripped down to its essential form, our faith is a belief in One who loves us; in Jesus, true God and true man, the only Christ, dwelling in the heart of His Church; in Him who was, who is, and who is to come—in You, O Lord! That is why our home is the universal Church, the throne on which you reign, a Church that is within time and yet outside of time.

The symbolism—if symbolism it was—indicated that the witnesses were types of the Church herself. Would all those who truly followed the Lord enact with their lives what was described by these passages? Would the prayers of believers be the very instruments for bringing chastisements upon unbelieving mankind? Would the Church be apparently destroyed for three and a half years? Would she rise again as the breath of God entered her? And would she then be taken up into heaven?

Surely you must know that the most powerful graces cannot be felt in the senses or the affections.

He's amazing. He's a different kind of saint, maybe a tougher kind than the Pope.

He knew that extraordinary graces were given when they were needed, and not a moment before. The Holy Spirit never moved within believers as if they were puppet instruments, but rather in cocreative choices—Person and person working together in faith and freedom.

It is very difficult", he said aloud. "It is very difficult for a man to believe that God loves him, if he does not know the love of another human being.

Explain it to me." "You want to be a saint, Billy. But you want to be a saint on your own terms. You want glorious victories with your sword; most of all, you want victories over your personal weaknesses and faults.

Michael D. O'Brien

My friend, I thank you for weeping over my painting. I have waited more than fifty years for such a compliment. I painted it when I was as young as you, during a period of darkness, a time when I believed there was no love in the world. From then on I could paint nothing. God speed you on your journey. There is love in the world. You will find it.