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.
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
One king, one law, one faith.
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.
A prayer without faith is without accomplishment
Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
A faith that is afraid of other people is not faith at all.
Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future.
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.
Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.
Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.
When fear replaces faith, remember prayer.
You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry. . . To have faith in Yahweh is to know that there is a realm of the spirit beyond the comprehension of our minds. . . Trusting in Molech. . . or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect - there's no difference in God's eyes. It's all idolatry.
To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.
There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.
Between the truth and the faith, we must always choose the first one.
