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Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.
Hope with a lively faith, smile, and keep moving forward, knowing that the best is always yet to come! ☀️
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Every great trial is followed by a great blessing!
Below is the translation from Spanish of a wonderful reflection on faith shared on social media:
“Every great trial is followed by a great blessing, because God never leaves us alone during our difficult moments. Every challenge, every pain, and every suffering we face serves a purpose in His hands. As our Lord and Savior, He transforms our trials into opportunities to grow in faith, patience, and love. Even though we may not always understand the path, let us trust that His will is good and perfect. Rather than becoming discouraged by difficulties, let us draw closer to Jesus through prayer and the sacraments. Every tear shed in faith is a seed of blessing. Allow God to act, and you will see how joy and spiritual strength emerge from what once seemed like pain”.
Note: Some posts attribute part of this text to Father Fernando Abraham, an Argentine Catholic priest.
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Faith does not consist of understanding everything. It consists of continuing to trust when we still do not understand.
Don’t lose faith. God isn’t finished with you yet. Keep walking, keep believing—even when you don’t yet understand the path 🛣️.
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The faith of Christ in your heart is like Christ in the boat. You hear insults, you wear yourself out, you are upset, and Christ sleeps. Wake Christ up, rouse your faith! Even in tribulation you can do something. Rouse your faith. Christ awakes and speaks to you… Therefore, wake Christ up… Believe what has been said to you, and there will be tremendous calm in your heart.
In this quote, Saint Augustine —referring to the Gospel episode of the storm on the lake (see Mark 4:35–41)— suggests how we should react in the face of tribulation: “Awaken Christ, awaken your faith!”. This is, without a doubt, a wonderful advice, because we know for sure that Jesus Christ can calm any storm!
Pope Francis said: “Today, let us invite Jesus into the boat of our life. Like the disciples, we will realize that once he is on board, the winds die down (cf. v. 32) and there can be no shipwreck. With him on board, there will never be a shipwreck!” (World Day of the Poor: Holy Mass (18 November 2018).
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
May the Lord increase our faith, so that one day we may receive the reward of seeing Him face to face (cf. 1 Corinthians 13,12).
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Yes, we are happy for the gift of faith; it is our most precious possession, which no one can take from us! Let us thank the Lord for this daily, in prayer and by a consistent Christian life.
Faith is truly our most valuable possession; therefore, we must nurture it, or we can lose it. Just as a plant needs sun, soil, and water, our faith needs the Word of God, the Holy Sacraments (especially the Holy Eucharist), and daily prayer🌱.
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Faith is essential; faith gives me life. I would say that faith is like the air we breathe. We don’t think, with every breath we take, how necessary air is, but when it isn’t there, or it isn’t clean, we realize right away how important it is!
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Faith is not believing in something, but believing in SOMEONE.
That Someone is the one living God, merciful and omnipotent, Creator of heaven and earth—with whom we can have a personal and wonderful relationship.
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Faith helps us to grasp the meaning of life: that there is Someone who loves us infinitely and that that Someone is God. He infinitely loves me.
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Faith is certain. It is more certain than all human knowledge because it is founded on the very word of God who cannot lie.
Have faith, God is faithful and true! 🙌
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Regarding this quote, Father Loring wrote in his book Compendio para Salvarte [To Save You - Compendium] (the following text was translated from Spanish):
“Faith is certain and obscure at the same time. Certain because it is based on the Word of God, and obscure due to the limitations of our understanding”.
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Those who believe without seeing are more meritorious than those who, seeing, believe.
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God continues to seek hearts like Mary’s, willing to believe even in altogether extraordinary conditions.
Note: In this quote, Pope Francis paraphrases Saint Ambrose in his comment on this passage (cf. Esposizione del Vangelo sec. Luca II: 17: PL 15, 1559).
Without a doubt, the Blessed Virgin Mary is our best model of faith and obedience. At the Annunciation, her “fiat” demonstrates a total commitment to God's will: “May it be done to me according to your word” (Luke 1,38 NAB).
Mother, teach us to believe as you do, to obey as you do!
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Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.
A quote that reminds us that faith and reason are not opposites, but partners in the search for truth.
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I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.
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Faith is strengthened when it is given to others!
Just as we learn more by teaching, we strengthen our faith by giving it to others.
Share this page with others, so that more people can strengthen their faith by reading these quotes 💪.
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I cannot believe without being carried by the faith of others, and by my faith I help support others in the faith.
Yes! We have faith; we are not alone. We believe in one God in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son—our Lord Jesus Christ—and God the Holy Spirit. We are a link in the great chain of believers ⛓️.