Faith Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God

  Smokey Robinson

  Talking, Years, Jail

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• Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves... His gaze, the touch of His heart heals us through an undeniably painful transformation "as through fire". But it is a blessed pain, in which the holy power of His love sears through us like a flame, enabling us to become totally ourselves and thus totally of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Pain, Blessed, Inspiration

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• When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Blessed, Inspiration, Tears

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• Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Stars, Inspiration, Moon

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• I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Prayer, Inspiration

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• By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

  Jackie Mason

  Love, Humility, Men

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• Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

  Robert Barron

  Inspiration, Heart, Mind

  FaceBook post by Bishop Robert Barron from Jul 22, 2014

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• My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Drama, Believer, Word Of God

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• God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Inspiration, Ladders

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes--life as Vanity, Job--life as Suffering, Song of Songs--life as Love”, p.149, Ignatius Press

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• Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Greatness, Men

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• Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

  Peter Kreeft

  Song, Inspiration, Grace

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.84, Ignatius Press

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• I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty and truth converge, and the more that we ourselves succeed in living in the beauty of truth, the more that faith will be able to return to being creative in our time too, and to express itself in a convincing form of art.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Art, Believe, Inspiration

  "Reason Needs Beauty, Says Pontiff". zenit.org. August 19, 2008.

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• Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Inspiration, Heart, Enough

  Peter Kreeft (2008). “Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer”, p.28, Ignatius Press

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• There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals.

  Stedman Graham

  Dream, Nike, Goal

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• The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.

  Peter Garrett

  Struggle, Inspiration, Destiny

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• Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry.  Fear never saved a marriage or a business.  Courage did that.  Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that.  But fear itself?  Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors.  Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Country, Fear

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul with expansions of light, shaping new heights and new depths,and, at your stir of assent,spreading the mountains with flame, filling the hollows with Heaven.

  Jessica Powers

  Moving, Inspiration, Light

  Jessica Powers (2015). “The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers”, p.57, ICS Publications

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• Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiration, Men, Revolution

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• Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Heart, Persons

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages”, p.23, Fortress Press

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• The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Pain, Loss, Doubt

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• Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Men, Humanity

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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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• 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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