Faith Quotes - Page 72

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other periods of history, our time is in need of that genius which belongs to women, and which can ensure sensitivity for human beings in every circumstance.

God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.

Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.

The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.

A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

God is with me, helping me.

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

Where there is lack, God’s abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It’s coming.

When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.