Faith Quotes - Page 31

• All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

  Peter Kreeft

  Inspiration, Together Again, Broken

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• If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Inspiration, Looks

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• You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fileds, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Inspiration, Home, Army

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• Did the walls of the barn start to tremble
  With a glory they could not contain?
  Did anyone wake with the feeling
  Of peace that they could not explain?
  Oh the love must have been overwhelming
  As it warmed everyone in it's flow
  For all of the earth is still telling
  of 2000 Decembers ago.

  Joy Williams

  Wall, Inspiration, Feelings

  Song: 2000 Decembers Ago

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• For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Heart, Son

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• Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.

  Andrew Peterson

  Inspiration, Two, Lasts

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• God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

  Peter Kreeft

  Inspiration, Two, World

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• There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby; What do I live for? If we've eyes to see... If we've ears to hear... To find it in our hearts and mouths the word that saves is near. Shed that shallow skin... Come and live again... Leave all you were before... To believe is to begin.

  Brooke Fraser

  Song, Children, Inspiration

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• The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

  Karl Rahner

  Christian, Inspiration, Mystic

  Karl Rahner (1981). “Concern for the Church”, The Crossroad Publishing Co.

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• Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Religious, Attitude, Inspiration

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.45, Macmillan

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• The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase.

  Rose of Lima

  Inspiration, Grace, Sorrow

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• A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiration, Common Sense, Finals

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• Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Love Is, Humanity

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• Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.

  Peter Kreeft

  Inspiration, Believe, Creative

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• The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine.

  Pope John Paul II

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Facts

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• What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Dream, Inspiration, Eye

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• For every person is a gaping space waiting to be filled with God.

  Olivier Clement

  Inspiration, Space, Waiting

  Olivier Clément (2000). “On Human Being: A Spiritual Anthropology”

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• Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiration, Men, Doing Nothing

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• A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Men, Needs

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• Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Love Is, Challenges

  Pope John Paul II, Bolesław Taborski (1980). “The jeweller's shop: a meditation on the sacrament of matrimony, passing on occasion into a drama”

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• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  Caryll Houselander

  Mother, Children, Inspiration

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.96, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Wine

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the face of Christ emerge and the voice of Christ be heard? For it is only when his face is seen and his voice heard that the world will know the glad tidings of our redemption. This is the purpose of evangelization. And this is what will make the Internet a genuinely human space, for if there is no room for Christ, there is no room for man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Men, Voice

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• There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Inspiration, Thinking, Men

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• Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Men, Dignity

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