Faith Necessity Quotes

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In the Ark of Noah certain persons, numbering only eight, were saved by water, which Baptism effects in like manner for you" (1 Peter 3:20). He proves and demonstrates that the solitary Ark of Noah was the figure of the One Church. If, at the time of this Baptism of the world anyone could have been saved without having been in the Ark of Noah, then he who is outside the Church could now be brought to life by Baptism.

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.