Christian Quotes - Page 277

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.

In the difficult moments of life, Christians can turn to the Mother of God and find protection and care.

Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.

Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's design by God, and, by his grace, countless Christian men and women have lived married life fully.

A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.

We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.

Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian

Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world, and I also invite each person, including our fellow Christians, followers of other religions and all men of good will, to participate, in whatever way they can, in this initiative.

...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable dwelling place (cf. Jn. 14:2) will be ours to enjoy. For this is what our sainted teacher said in his famous philosophical aphorism: 'Then we shall know as we are known' (I Cor. 13:12), when we mingle our god-formed mind and divine reason to what is properly its own and the image returns to the archetype for which it now longs.

What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit and ascribe to it all the affirmations we make in regard to beings, and, more appropriately, we should negate all these affirmations, since It surpasses all being. Now we should not conclude that the negations are simply the opposites of the affirmations, but rather that the cause of all is considerably prior to this, beyond privations, beyond every denial, beyond every assertion.

I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way... We would be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacle to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by the act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden.