Quotes about faith
faith inspiration relation
Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved. Pope Benedict XVI
faith prayer inspiration
Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.
faith inspiration space
How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?
faith inspiration names
The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least particle, is a being in relation, and thus God-relation shines forth, ultimately creative Love shines forth. All comes from love, tends toward love, and is moved by love, naturally, according to different grades of consciousness and freedom... The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: only love makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and be loved.
faith dream jobs
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.
faith inspiration voice
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.
faith inspiration love-is
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.
faith dream inspiration
What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?
faith inspiration men
A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.
faith inspiration violence
Violence against even one human being is violence against all.
faith pain blessed
Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves... His gaze, the touch of His heart heals us through an undeniably painful transformation "as through fire". But it is a blessed pain, in which the holy power of His love sears through us like a flame, enabling us to become totally ourselves and thus totally of God.
faith inspiration calendars
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.
faith inspiration men
Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever...
faith inspiration men
Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body.
faith inspiration creative
Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.
faith inspiration church
The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is for the Lord, and the less freedom there is. It is my opinion that we ought to begin an unsparing examination of conscience on this point at all levels in the Church.
faith joy path
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.
faith light splendor
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors. Nathaniel Hawthorne
faith inspiration television
My television is the tabernacle. Mother Teresa
faith country inspiration
It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.
faithful littles little-things
Be faithful in the little things.
faith fullness-of-life important
Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.
faith love-you heart
Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.
faith christian inspiration
If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.
faith peace prayer
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
faith strong answers
My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.
faith mean
By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith. George MacDonald
faith praise cleverness
Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.
faith obedience compliance
Faith is obedience, not compliance.
faith ignorance knowing
Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action
faith perfect lifts
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear
faith flower inspiration
All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us...
faith doors doubt
Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.