Faith Quotes - Page 31

• You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

  Billy Graham

  Finding Yourself, Who God Is, Trust In God

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Perfect, Enemy

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• It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

  Joey Skaggs

  Easier, If I Could, Ifs

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiration, Men, Revolution

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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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• 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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• I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

  Matthew Simpson

  Purpose, Today, Dogmatic

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Wind, Sorrow

  William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.180

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• Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

  Carter Heyward

  Land, Belief, Process

  Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Inspiration, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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• I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

  Michelle Shocked

  Soul, Devil, Slippery Slope

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As followers of Christ, we must remember always to build our defense of the Christian faith on the sure foundation of the Bible. If we do so, there will be no weight too great to be supported; no wind too strong to be resisted.

  Richard L. Pratt, Jr.

  Christian, Strong, Wind

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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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