Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.
Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.
May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.
I have no faith in my ability to judge things.
Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.
Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.
For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.
It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.