Faith Quotes - Page 33

I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith

God enters by a private door into every individual.

All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. Thus God, not man, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God's coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience.

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.

By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.