Quotes about Belief
Were God Himself the sole and constant object of our desire, we should not be so easily distressed when our opinions are contradicted.
— Thomas a Kempis
Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
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.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
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.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
— St. Thomas Aquinas