Faith Quotes

He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.

In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.

The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith.

For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed, your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed Alleluia!

Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with

Hope is the mother of faith.

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

I'm big in my faith. I try to keep God No. 1 in my life.

The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.

I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?

I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.

There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

Oh! where does faithful Gélert roam, The flow'r of all his race? So true, so brave; a lamb at home, A lion in the chase.