Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Quotes

It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.