faith

"Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?"

"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody..."

"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."

"من قال لك أن درب الجنة معبد بالورود؟"

"Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything."

"History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty."

"Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it."

"Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you."

"Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves."

"Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade."

"All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand."

"To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."

"I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end."

"The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world."

"Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again."

"When God has specially promised the thing, we are bound to believe we shall recieve it when we pray for it. You have no right to put in an 'if', and say, 'Lord, if it be thy will..."This is to insult God. To put an 'if' in God's promise when God has put none there, is tantamount to charging God with being insincere."

"Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option."

"Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29)."

"belief is the death of intelligence."

"We live by faith and not by sight."