Quotes about "Faith & Spirituality"

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. ”

To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward. ”

We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh. ”

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. ”

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. ”

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ”

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. ”

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. ”

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. ”

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ”