Faith Quotes - Page 51

You gotta have faith. Even at the bottom of the blackest hole, there will always be light shining through. It just takes faith to see it.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.

Throughout history there have been many men and women who have chosen to imitate Jesus as he withdraws into the desert... To pass time in the desert means to create a little emptiness and silence around us, to rediscover the road to our heart, to remove ourselves from the noise and external distractions, to enter into contact with the deepest source of our being and our faith.

O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts... May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

There is no place where God is not.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.

Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.