Quotes on Catholic Faith

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.