Pope John Paul II Quotes

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. For me, this is an important key. If one has the answers to all the questions—that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt.

God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

I was baptised a Catholic and, although I'm not a churchgoer now, I do have a strong sense of the integrity of doing what you believe to be true.

Faith is a gift. Some feel like they were never blessed with it, others just casually let it fall away.

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in a higher power. I believe God placed me on this planet to be a beneficial presence.

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.

It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.