The Faith Quotes
Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.
An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.
Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.
God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.
Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.
For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".
Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
When we choose to follow Christ in faith rather than choosing another path out of fear, we are blessed with a consequence that is consistent with our choice.
I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.
Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.
Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's asleep for a long time and then it wakes up as it evolves.
I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.
Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.
Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.
There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.
Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.
