Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.
It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.
You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything.
Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.
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