Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do.
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
The greater the faith, the greater the result.
Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.
Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.
Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.
Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.
Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.
It was when I was happiest that I longed most. . . The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing. . . to find the place where all the beauty came from.
[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.
Truth resides where there is faith.