Faith Quotes - Page 74

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

Being faithful doesn’t mean you are fearless. It just means that your faith is greater than your fear.

Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

[L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for this and redouble our confidence in God.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

There is not enough time in the day to address all these challenges we face. I pray for wisdom in prioritizing issues and working on the things God would intend, so one day we too will hear those words: "Well done, my good and faithful servant."

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.