Faith Quotes - Page 16

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.

Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

When we steadfastly believe and act our faith in God's Word, nothing can keep the power in the Word from making all things to become exactly as the Word says.

God's faithfulness means that God will always do what He said and fulfill what He has promised.