Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Basil

The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They become like so many powerhouses beaming grace and love around them.

Saint Basil

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Saint Francis de Sales

Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

Saint Francis de Sales

To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.

Saint Francis de Sales

Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?

Saint Francis de Sales

Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

Saint Francis de Sales

Those who commit these types of scandals are guility of the spiritual equivalent of murder, but I, here among you to prevent something far worst for you. While those who give scandal are guilty of the spiritual equivalent of murder, those who take scandal- who allow scandals to destroy faith- are guilty of spiritual suicide.

Saint Francis de Sales

Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.

Saint Augustine

Understanding is the wages of faith.

Saint Augustine

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

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

Saint Augustine

Singing is a lover's thing.

Saint Augustine

You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

Saint Augustine

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

Saint Augustine

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Saint Augustine

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Saint Augustine

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

Saint Augustine

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

Saint Augustine

Doubt is but another element of faith.

Saint Augustine

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

Yanni

We're all capable if we have faith and passion.

Wilson Mizner

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Zora Neale Hurston

Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.

Zig Ziglar

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

William Gurnall

How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance.... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance?

William Gurnall

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

William Barclay

...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.

Wilfred Grenfell

The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.

Wilferd Peterson

Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

Wilferd Peterson

Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the future. . . There is magic in the art of believing! Believe! Engrave these words of the Master in your memory: "All things are possible to those who believe." Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

Voltaire

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

Voltaire

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.