Faith

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

"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."

"I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are."

"It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so."

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

"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."

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

"The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith?"

"God blesses to the degree in which you believe."

"Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith."

"Faith reveals the potential."

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

"Some things have to be believed to be seen"

"It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine."

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings."

"Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy."

"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."

"What the hell are you getting so upset about" he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. "I thought you didn't believe in God."I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be."

"This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race..."

"The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world."