Faith Quotes

"The Church isn't the old lady in the story. The old lady is the Church."

"Most of us come to the Church by a means the Church does not allow."

"If you don't know the Lord, you can know that you're separated from Him."

"If there is no God, then all our efforts are useless from the start."

"To know oneself is to know God."

"God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God."

"Grace is a hard nut to crack, but it's possible."

"The Church says 'come,' and we come in full battle array."

"I am a Christian, and this means I am obliged by my faith to tell the truth."

"We live in our own blindness, and only grace can open our eyes."

"Grace comes to those who are broken enough to receive it."

"He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke words."

"Faith is believing in something you can't prove. That's what makes it faith."

"In every person lies the capacity for goodness."

"Perhaps it is the solitary mystical experience that bonds most of us to the world."

"Faith is the belief in something even when evidence is uncertain."

"You must never betray your conscience, no matter how great the pressure."

"The so-called 'grace' of God is really just luck."

"The invisible world is all around us, and it is composed of what we cannot see."

"I'm a pious man, but I don't say so."

"He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke words."

"Every act is an act of faith."

"Faith is believing in the unseen while acting as though it is already true."

"The absence of faith is not the same as the absence of God."

"Belief, in the way I mean it, is the engine that makes perception possible."

"The kind of vision the Christian fiction writer is supposed to have increases, rather than decreases, his respect for the concrete."

"Even if I lost my faith, I would still have the Church."

"We are not our own light. We are not even dim lights; we are just to be vehicles for light."

"The element of surprise is something that is woven throughout Scripture."

"Dogma is the guardian of mystery."