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Faith Quotes


"All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction."


"Before you ever clasped your hands to pray God was already within your heart to stay."


"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."


"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."


"A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it."


"The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ."


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


"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith."


"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."


"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."



"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."


"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book."



"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."


"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."


"We often forget that the Author of our faith must be the Preserver of it also. The lamp which was burning in the temple was never allowed to go out, but it had to be daily replenished with fresh oil; in like manner, our faith can only live by being sustained with the oil of grace."


"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead."


"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."


"I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith."


"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"



"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."


"Jesus reveals who He is through the living Word."


"For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say."


"The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them."


"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."


"I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learnt this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am full or hungry, whether I have too much or too little. I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me."


"We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer."


"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."


"If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem."


"But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person."


"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe."


"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."
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