Pierre Loti Quotes

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You need to have time to really hear God.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

I think often that God is guiding me.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.