What Is Faith Quotes

Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen.

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what he is like. Heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness.

Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.

Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.

Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.

The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

My faith is tested daily.

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.

Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

Limited faith, limited future. Unlimited faith, unlimited future.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions.... Peace is still possible.

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

The one who has real Faith doesn't need to believe.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.

Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have.

There can be no faith without risk.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.