Quotes on Faith

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.

It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1John 4:8)

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense to lose ourselves to find ourselves subsequently enriched.

Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.