“This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.” WorldDoeSoulInspirationSpiritualSpiritFaithPleasureMaterialsHolyGoodnessCatholicCharityRichesServantHoly SpiritGoodsAbyssProviders Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. Thus God, not man, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.” PeopleMenGodSpiritFaithFatherJesusProcessChristReligiousPowerGraceSonHolyDiedElectionSalvationDetermineRedemptionHoly SpiritAccomplishedRepentanceAlmightyTheologianTrinityRegeneration Author:Loraine Boettner
“It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.” MenInspirationalSpiritFaithEasyWorkBreakDevilAdvantageSelf ConfidenceShakes Author:George Bernard Shaw
“If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingFeelsShouldFirstsLittlesSelfWould BeChristianRememberSpiritFaithJesusChristPrayerWonderSacrificeGloryDrawsBlameSavedDevotionBitterIronyAshamedOur PrayersHesitationSelf SacrificeHinderRedeemed Author:Francois Coillard
“I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.” PeopleWorldBelieveHumansKindSpiritFaithLanguageI BelieveSocialGrowsCommunityEnvironmentGraceOur LivesDependsBirthShapesCapacityUniversalLatterRitualInitiativeNurtureIgnoredInteractive Author:James W. Fowler
“The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.” SpiritReligionFaithSpiritualityIndividualChaosIndividualityComplexity Author:Baruch Spinoza
“Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.” LoveReasonSpiritFaithChristLove IsKeysObedienceMotive Author:James E. Faust
“What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.” BelieveLooksDoeEarthSpiritFaithFatherJesusI BelieveHolyHoly SpiritAircraft Author:Benny Hinn
“God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and you'll be Saved. There's nothing more to it.' It ignores the Whole Counsel of God, which speaks of Repenting from former Sins, of Taking up your Cross, of being conformed to the Image of Christ by the refining work of the Holy Spirit. It is totally silent about the Reality of Hell and an After-Death Judgment.” WorldBelieveWholeGodRealityTodayChristianDeathSpiritFaithHateJesusBeliefSpeakChristSinHalfChristianityHellHolyJudgmentCrossesSilentSpreadSavedFormerHoly SpiritRepentanceConformityGlobesRepentAfter DeathHoly GhostRefiningJust BelieveLukewarmHalf Truth Author:David Wilkerson
“Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.” ChristianFormSpiritDesireFaithJesusWishObjectsSaintAffectionDevotionChiefsAffectedReignDispositionPreoccupationFollowing JesusGod Within UsCatholic SaintChristian Service Author:John Eudes