faith Quotes

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.