Quotes About Faith

"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent

God's self-revelation to humanity does not occur from the centers of world power but in the margins of society.

In these statements the interpretation of the speaker is given the same validity as the Bible, making the interpreter's words inerrant. I believe in the Bible, but not necessarily in how the Bible is interpreted by humans.

We can only imagine the repercussions if, today, someone took one of their children and attempted to offer him or her as a sacrifice to please God, professing that God had told them to do it. No doubt such a person would be arrested and placed under psychiatric care, as they should be. But the Abraham story has become so familiar that we fail to read its disturbing dark side.

You'll know when you get there. For now, just keep typing.

Adónde volver los ojos en busca de libertad? El sacristán: —¡A Dios, que es todopoderoso! El estudiante: —¿Para qué, si no responde?... El sacristán: —Porque esa es Su Santísima voluntad... El estudiante: —¡Qué lástima! La

La imagen de la Virgen se borró en la sombra y por el suelo rodaron dos cuerpos hechos una trenza de ajos.

He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

What a man has, so much he's sure of.

On the word of a gentleman, and a Christian.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness

The devil is an angel too.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself.