All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.”

“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.”

“The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.”

“Sin embargo, conocí a muchos internados que supieron ser fieles a su dignidad humana hasta el mismo fin. Los nazis lograron degradarlos físicamente, pero no fueron capaces de rebajarlos moralmente.Gracias a estos pocos, no he perdido totalmente mi fe en la humanidad. Si en la misma jungla de Birkenau no todos fueron necesariamente inhumanos con sus hermanos hombres, indudablemente hay todavía esperanzas.Esta esperanza es la que me hace vivir.”

“The first step to salvation is the instruction accompanied with fear, in consequence of which we abstain from what is wrong; and the second is hope, by reason of which we desire the best things; but love, as is fitting, perfects, by training now according to knowledge.”

“Don’t believe negative voices. Listen to the divine-instinct of awaken soul.”

“Endure to the very end.”

“Be strong.”

“Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?”

“Spiritual victory is not something you earn – it is something you accept. The Christian life is not so much about what you have done – it’s about what Christ has done. It’s not so much about how strong you are – it’s about how strong God is.”

“Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.”

“A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.”

“The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.”

“The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.”

“Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.”