faith quotes

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

God does not play dice.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

God is everywhere.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.