Faith Quotes - Page 12

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

Trust is good, but control is better.

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

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

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread." He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the light." He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the door." He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the shepherd." He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life."

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.