Faith Quotes - Page 30

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice.

God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world a drama fraught with real peril.

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.

Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principals. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts; to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign forever.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.

The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.

We should not confuse complete faith in God with complete faith in our ability to discern God's voice.

I don't have faith in the Internet, I have faith in people connected through the Internet.

Trust in the Lord is the only true antidote to fear. Focusing on God rather than the trial will keep us from sinking in fear. However, learning to face our fears does not mean we will never have another anxious moment. Faith does not lie in trusting God to stop the storm, but in trusting Him to enable us to walk through the storm. When trouble occurs, He will give us the ability to cope with it.

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that 'I can do it' - is the opposite of fear ('What if I fail?'). And faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation ... and eventually success.

Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.

Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.