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Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.
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.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.
If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.
When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.
What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?
Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.
Every character that I've chosen has made me evolve as an actor. And I am lucky that my directors have shown so much faith in my abilities.
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.
The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.
Having faith and trust that one day things will be greater, it sometimes is the one thing you need to stay positive in a negative situation.
The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.
Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.
Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.
The greatest mistake is in not being aware that others are Christ. There are very many people who will not discover it until their last day.
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.
You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you "knows that you know" and that you do not just hope that you know.