June 17, 2005

Quotes - Faith & Hope

Today I wanted to share some favorite quotes on Faith and Hope. These are quotes that have touched my heart and I hope will touch yours.

FAITH:
"Prayer is the key to Heaven, but faith unlocks the door."
-- Anonymous

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
--St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)


Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)


I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
--Mother Teresa


Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
--C. S. Lewis



HOPE:
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again
--Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance:
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
-- Anonymous


Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those who still love even though they've been hurt before.
-- Anyonymous



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