Quotes About Faith

As Abraham had promised Isaac, God Himself truly provided the Lamb, His own Son, offered as a willing sacrifice, raised from the dead, and present daily on the altar at every Holy Mass. The

Whoever doesn't seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ. — St. John of the Cross

The Incarnation is the most stupendous event which ever can take place on earth; and after it and henceforth, I do not see how we can scruple at any miracle on the mere ground of its being unlikely to happen. — Blessed John Henry Newman

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

the courage to die is the test of the courage to be.

sin is separation.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

He who participates in God participates in eternity.

real joy is a "severe matter"; it is the happiness of a soul which is "lifted above every circumstance.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith

For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable…. This is the genuine meaning of the Pauline-Lutheran doctrine of 'justification by faith

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.

It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.