Faith Quotes - Page 35

• God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiration, Thinking, Church

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.11, BookBaby

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• For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Spiritual, Pain

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.29, BookBaby

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• It is important always to know that the first word, the true initiative, the true activity comes from God and only by inserting ourselves into the divine initiative, only begging for this divine initiative, shall we too be able to become - with him and in him - evangelizers.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Important, Able

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspiration, Luxury, Degrade

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• If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

  Matthew Simpson

  Men, Connections, He Man

  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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• Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.

  William Bateson

  Time, Degrees, Littles

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• Hope is the destination that we seek.
  Love is the road that leads to hope.
  Courage is the motor that drives us.
  We travel out of darkness into faith.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Darkness, Destination

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam

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• The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want."

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Love, Mother, Spiritual

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• Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer and more complex patterns of activity; an esthetic heightening of anticipated realizations; a steady lengthening of the future; a faith in cosmic perspectives.

  Lewis Mumford

  Love, Opposites, Perspective

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• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Love, Peace, War

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• Praise, or gratitude, is love or faith in action.

  Robert Scheid

  Love, Gratitude, Action

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis

  Propertius

  Love, Experts, Nemo

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• The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Irritation, Oysters

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• The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Encouragement, Exercise

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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