Faith Quotes - Page 87

The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine.

In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.

All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the way there is no going, without the truth there is no knowing, without life there is no living.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.