Faith Quotes - Page 33

• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Inspiration, Sacrifice

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.37, CUA Press

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• God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Inspiration, Secret, His Love

  Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “The Divine Romance”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Deception

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• He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust.

  Pope Damasus I

  Brother, Believe, Inspiration

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• What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Inspiration, Humble, Humility

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• 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)

  Albertus Magnus

  Love, Inspiration, Men

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• Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. But when the will sighs under the trial of the tempter and does not will what is presented to it, there is not only no fault but there is virtue.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Inspiration, Evil, Feelings

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• The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.

  Alanus de Rupe

  Inspiration, Blessing, Catholic

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• Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.

  Saint Lucy

  Inspiration, Heart, Catholic

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• All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

  Happiness, Happy, Inspiration

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• O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: He saved others, himself he cannot save!

  Norbert of Xanten

  Inspiration, Christ On The Cross, Care

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• O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiration, Unity, Charity

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• And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.

  Mark the Evangelist

  Inspiration, Messages, Lord

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspiration, Luxury, Degrade

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• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  Gemma Galgani

  Jesus, Inspiration, Ignorance

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• Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

  Ruth Benedict

  Future, Memorable, Long

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.125, Transaction Publishers

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• At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

  Philip Gibbs

  Spiritual, Cost, Worship

  Gibbs (Sir Philip Hamilton.), Philip Gibbs (1933). “Ways of Escape”

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• There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Cutting, Power, Simple

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Faith and optimism are contagious.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Optimism, Contagious

  Thom S. Rainer (2001). “Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them”, p.197, Harper Collins

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Significant, Piety

  Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender (2008). “Walden”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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• Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mean, Men, Self

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• Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Men, Religion

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• Have faith in your own thoughts.

  Brooke Shields

  Have Faith

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• You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

  John F. MacArthur

  Thinking, Childlike, Childlike Faith

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