You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.
Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith.
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
Faith is a gift of God.
Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.
Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
God tested Abraham. That is, he sent him afflictions for his benefit, not so that he could find out what sort of man he was, for God knows everything, but so that He give him the means to perfect his faith.
Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift with which nature is healed, strengthened and assisted in pursuing the innate desire for happiness in the heart of every man and of every woman.
This is a beautiful time, this last age, the age of the Holy Spirit. . . He is crying to every soul that is walled: Open to Me, My spouse, My sister. And once inside, He is calling again: Come to Me here in this secret place. Oh, hear Him tonight crying all over the world a last desperate summons of love to a dying race.
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
For trust not him that hath once broken faith
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given the premise, and this is fundamental, that the mercy of God is limitless for those who turn to him with a sincere and contrite heart, the issue for the unbeliever lies in obeying his or her conscience.
