Faith Quotes - Page 30

• Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Inspiration, Wish

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• It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Long, Enough

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• Without God the economy is only economy, nature is nothing more than a deposit of material, the family only a contract, life nothing more than a laboratory product, love only chemistry, and development nothing more than a form of growth.

  Giampaolo Crepaldi

  Inspiration, Growth, Development

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• Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

  Van Morrison

  Inspiration, World, Way

  Van Morrison (2014). “Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics”, p.157, Faber & Faber

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• How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

  Peter Kreeft

  Latin, Inspiration, Speak English

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• Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Inspiration, Heart

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• From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts. He must wait for the gift of love, and love can only be received as a gift... One must wait for it, let it be given to one. And one cannot become wholly man in any other way than by being loved, by letting oneself be loved... If he declines to let himself be presented with the gift, then he destroys himself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Inspiration, Men

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• Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Relation, Alone In Love

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages”, p.223, Fortress Press

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• We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Philosophy, Distance, Inspiration

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• To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Tasks, Firsts

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• The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Husband, Inspiration, Wife

  Saint John Chrysostom, Catharine P. Roth, David Anderson (1986). “On Marriage and Family Life”, p.44, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Christian Inspirational, May

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.86, Ignatius Press

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• He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Inspiration, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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• It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspiration, Mean, Darkness

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.117, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along.

  Trevor Hall

  Song, Husband, Inspiration

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• The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Prayer, Inspiration, Catholic

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• In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

  Pope John Paul II

  Husband, Inspiration, Motherhood

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• Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Love Is, Men

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.156, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Inspiration, Men

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.163, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Space, Violence

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• The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Reality, Achievement

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Dream, Jobs, Inspiration

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• A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiration, Men, Law

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• When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiration, Sorrow, Trials

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• In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Giving, Soul

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