Faith Quotes - Page 97

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

As Pope Francis says in Amoris laetitia, pastors must "make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as best they can to the Gospel amid their limitations, and are capable of carrying out their own discernment in complex situations. We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them" (no. 37). As for the former statement, we should only be afraid if the church is smaller because of our failure to welcome people and preach the Gospel in a way that touches their hearts.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Have faith in the magic and miracles of life, for only those that do get to experience them.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice