Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

Instead of going through a litany of troubling things Pope Francis has said, let's zero in on just one. On several occasions, the Pope seemed to teach that faith is not necessary to salvation or entrance into Heaven. At the very least, Pope Francis has a positive opinion of an atheist's chances for getting into Heaven.

Our Lord has deigned to make me understand that by simple obedience I shall please Him best.

If thou seekest Jesus in all things, thou shalt surely find Jesus.

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.

Jean Paul Sartre: "I needed God . . . I reached out for religion, I longed for it, it was the remedy. Had it been denied me, I would have invented it myself.