Quotes About Faith

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ëYou must not eat from any tree in the garden?í”

“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.

So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brotherís keeper?”

But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.

And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.